xxiaoye@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (04/05/89)
I just downloaded DigSim 2.0 from sumex archives. DigSim is a digital logic simulation program written by Brian Rauchfuss. This latest version 2.0 I download was written in 1986. Not too surprisingly, this version doesn't run well under the latest system software, sytem 6.02, finder 6.1 and Multifinder 6.0.1 (both Multifinder and Finder). What I mean by "not run well" is that it starts ok, and all the functions works fine, except one. It crashes a lot (not all the time) when one tries to open a previously saved file (no, I don't think that this is deliberately disabled). Does anyone know of any more recent versions of DigSim ? If you have it, can you email it to me or send it to sumex-aim archives ( I think that posting to comp.binaries.mac is quite slow). I know of several other logic simulation programs. However, none of them has a function of that DigSim has -- subcircuit (customized circuit libraries). If you know of any program that has this function, would you please tell me where I can get it ? This is for educational purposes, therefore, PD/Shareware is preferred. Thanks in advance. ________________________________________________________________________ Xiaoxia Ye INTERNET/BITNET/UUCP: xxiaoye@eleazar.dartmouth.edu Dartmouth College For more info: finger xxiaoye@eleazar.dartmouth.edu
englandr@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Scott Englander) (04/06/89)
In article <12897@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> xxiaoye@eleazar.dartmouth.edu writes: > >I just downloaded DigSim 2.0 from sumex archives. DigSim is a digital >logic simulation program written by Brian Rauchfuss. This latest > >I know of several other logic simulation programs. However, none of >them has a function of that DigSim has -- subcircuit (customized >circuit libraries). If you know of any program that has this function, Well, the one i use doesn't do this. But it's superior to DigSim in all other respects. It is: LogiMac, by Chris Dewhurst, $28 from Kinko's Acedemic Courseware Exchange, 800/235-6919 (CA 800/292-6640). It's great, enabling numbering of pins, naming of signals that you want in a timing diagram, assigning a delay (transition time) to components (although only 256 levels of resolution), pretty good rubber-banding (in contrast to DigSim, which lays signals on top of each other), fairly good generic component library (can approximate most TTL stuff and more), good page-layout capabilities (prints out multi-page drawings, showing you page boundaries in a "show page" mode). I admit i missed the capability to make components, but i got along. I think the author has a more expensive (>$100) version called LogiWorks (604/669-6343) that is more functional. But for less than the cost of a textbook, this one is fine. I designed the main timing logic section of a digital sampling oscilloscope using this, and it saved me many hours in the lab. -- - Scott