Cool Gate-Level Logic Simulation Tool

November 14th, 2009 admin

Dr. Mark Hill of University of Wisconsin Madison pointed out the existence of this really cool learning aid to his class Logic Design class in October 2009. He also provides some guidelines about how to use the tool. Give it a shot if you like to play around with AND, OR, NOT gates and build logic. You can build “memory” structures too, something that can remember state. The following text is from Dr. Hill’s email. Enjoy.

Here is a cool tool for playing with and visualizing simple logic gates:

http://joshblog.net/projects/logic-gate-simulator/Logicly.html

Build your own circuit:

(a) Drag over a few gates in the middle.
(b) Drag few switches to the left side as inputs
(c) Drag one or more light bulbs to right as output(s)
(d) Connect items together with wires by clicking on needed endpoints.

Operate it:
(e) Click on switches to toggle inputs between one (blue) and zero (white).
(f) Watch the wires change state — one (blue) and zero (white) and light bulbs go on (blue) or off (off).

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