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Logisim – A Graphical Tool for Designing and Simulating Digital Logic Circuits

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Re: Logisim – A Graphical Tool for Designing and Simulating Digital Logic Circuits

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Very cool tool. Almost 2 decades ago, I learnt Principles of Digital Design in the university using EWB (Electronics Workbench), then known as Multisim. It's Windows only. Then a friend pointed me to Logisim, which also runs well on Linux. Unfortunately, the development was suspended, which lead to various forks like: - https://github.com/lbulej/fork-logisim-evolution - https://github.com/Logisim-Ita/Logisim - https:…

How does LogiSim compare to KiCad or LTSpice?

Re: Logisim – A Graphical Tool for Designing and Simulating Digital Logic Circuits

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I took an intro course at uni in digital circuit design, which was part of the core CS courses. We used logism for the pre-labs, and then implemented the circuits on bread-boards

It ended up being one of my favourite courses of all my undergrad courses

Re: Logisim – A Graphical Tool for Designing and Simulating Digital Logic Circuits

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We used a fork of Logisim for the computer architecture courses (CS 2110/2200?)at Georgia Tech as well. It was called Brandonsim[1] after the hyper productive Head TA Brandon who adapted it for our courses.

[1] https://github.com/TricksterGuy/Brandonsim

Re: Logisim – A Graphical Tool for Designing and Simulating Digital Logic Circuits

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Very cool tool. Almost 2 decades ago, I learnt Principles of Digital Design in the university using EWB (Electronics Workbench), then known as Multisim. It's Windows only. Then a friend pointed me to Logisim, which also runs well on Linux. Unfortunately, the development was suspended, which lead to various forks like: - https://github.com/lbulej/fork-logisim-evolution - https://github.com/Logisim-Ita/Logisim - https:…

How does LogiSim compare to KiCad or LTSpice?

LogiSim is for simulating digital logic only.

LTSpice is for simulating analog circuits, particularly power electronics.

KiCAD is a schematic design and layout tool, it's for designing printed circuit boards.

So it's a bit of an apples:lettuce:walnuts comparison. They're all for different categories of thing, though all deal with some sort of circuit in some sense.

Re: Logisim – A Graphical Tool for Designing and Simulating Digital Logic Circuits

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

How does LogiSim compare to KiCad or LTSpice?

LogiSim is for simulating digital logic only. LTSpice is for simulating analog circuits, particularly power electronics. KiCAD is a schematic design and layout tool, it's for designing printed circuit boards. So it's a bit of an apples:lettuce:walnuts comparison. They're all for different categories of thing, though all deal with some sort of circuit in some sense.

Since you seem knowledgable on the subject, do you know of any open source or cheap integrated circuit simulators and/or design tools?

Re: Logisim – A Graphical Tool for Designing and Simulating Digital Logic Circuits

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

LogiSim is for simulating digital logic only. LTSpice is for simulating analog circuits, particularly power electronics. KiCAD is a schematic design and layout tool, it's for designing printed circuit boards. So it's a bit of an apples:lettuce:walnuts comparison. They're all for different categories of thing, though all deal with some sort of circuit in some sense.

Since you seem knowledgable on the subject, do you know of any open source or cheap integrated circuit simulators and/or design tools?

LTSpice for windows. Spice3f5/ngspice for unix

Re: Logisim – A Graphical Tool for Designing and Simulating Digital Logic Circuits

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post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Since you seem knowledgable on the subject, do you know of any open source or cheap integrated circuit simulators and/or design tools?

LTSpice for windows. Spice3f5/ngspice for unix

LTSpice/NgSpice can accurately simulate digital logic in custom-made integrated circuits? Can one achieve close-to-professional results?

Re: Logisim – A Graphical Tool for Designing and Simulating Digital Logic Circuits

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post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

LTSpice for windows. Spice3f5/ngspice for unix

LTSpice/NgSpice can accurately simulate digital logic in custom-made integrated circuits? Can one achieve close-to-professional results?

If you have good models, yes.
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