TkGate A hierarchical digital circuit editor and simulator.
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A hierarchical digital circuit editor and simulator. TkGate is a event driven digital circuit simulator with a tcl/tk-based graphical editor. TkGate supports a wide range of primitive circuit elements as well as user-defined modules for hierarchical design.The distribution comes with a number of tutorial and example circuits which can be loaded through the "Help" menu. The example circuits include a simple CPU, programmed to run the Animals game. TkGate is free software provided with source code under the Gnu Public License. Here are some key features of "TkGate": Graphical circuit design: · Hierarchical design through user defined modules. · Easy to use point-and-click user interface. · Create hyperlinks to move about in circuit or load other files. · Multi-lingual interface (Catalan, English, French, German, Japanese, Spanish, Welsh) · Verilog-like save file format. Logic simulation: · Control through the GUI or through script files. · Suitable for simulation at transistor, gate or register transfer level. · Six valued logic model including 0, 1, floating, unknown, "low" and "high". · Support for custom delay models. · Graphical display of simulation results. · Breakpoints, single-step and clock-step simulator control. · Static critical path analysis. Primitive circuit elements include: · Basic gates (AND, OR, etc.) · Switch-level NMOS and PMOS transistors · Tristate buffers · Alu components (Adders, shifters, multipliers) · Memory elements (Registers, RAMs, ROMs) · An interactive "tty" element allows design of circuits that can interact with the user. · Support tools include a microcode/macrocode compiler to assist in creating large projects such as microprocessor designs.

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