pottle@tesla.UUCP (Christopher Pottle) (04/02/86)
<> We are interested in adding a CAD component to our introductory digital systems course. This course is a rather standard theory course which currently uses Preparata's Introduction to Computer Engineering as a text. Attached to the course is a laboratory which meets every other week. The students design simple things and build them up with DIPs and little wires on proto boards. We would like to introduce some simple logic design tools including at least schematic capture and logic simulation to run on micros. We would prefer to use IBM-PC hardware (because it's free) or the Mac (because it's versatile). We would like to hear from you if you know of software which would be appropriate for the course. Our experience so far seems to be that commercial products are too complex for a sophomore course and take too long to get used to. If you know of a counterexample, we would like to hear about it. If you know of some university-developed software that's robust, that would be of great interest also. We would also like to hear of any university-developed stuff which would use a digital interface to send and receive signals from a proto board to activate and test hard-wired stuff. Such software would likely be found in a course where VLSI chips are being tested after fabrication by MOSIS. As always, if we get a lot of information, and it seems of general interest, we will summarize to the net. Chris Pottle ARPA: pottle@tesla.ARPA UUCP: ...decvax!cornell!tesla!pottle