LOGICS / Tool 03

Circuit Simulator

Any logic circuit, wired from gates and run live.

Drop switches, gates, LEDs and seven-segment displays on a canvas, wire them, and watch every signal as you flip the inputs. Type an expression and it builds the gates for you, or start from an example: an adder, a decoder, a multiplexer, a comparator. Then make the circuit’s truth table, and walk away with a materials list and a breadboard plan — before you’ve touched a single jumper wire.

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Example · 2-to-4 decoder AA'BB' Y0Y1Y2Y3
Truth table
ABY0Y1Y2Y3
001000
010100
100010
110001
CheckedExactly one output high for each input
How it works

Wire it, check it, then build it.

01

Wire it

Switches, gates and outputs on the canvas — by hand, from an expression, or from an example. Signals carrying a 1 light up as you go.

02

Check it

Step the inputs through every combination and read the truth table of every output, with the expression each one works out to.

03

Get the materials list

The parts your verified design needs, counted for you, so the trip to the stockroom happens once.

04

Follow the breadboard plan

Where each chip sits and how the wires run, laid out before you build.

Before you build

Know the parts and the layout first.

For the 2-to-4 example above, this is the kind of plan you take to the lab bench. Your own lab sheet sets the final part list.

Materials list · example
74LS04 hex inverter2 of 6 inverters used
× 1
74LS08 quad 2-input AND4 of 4 gates used
× 1
Solderless breadboard× 1
+5 V supply× 1
Jumper wiresset
Breadboard plan · example U174LS04 U274LS08 +5 VGND
+5 V to pin 14 GND to pin 7 signal wires
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Your design as actual 74-series ICs.

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