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I'm studying CS, and we have a course called "computer systems architecture" which is merger of two former "logic systems theory" and "mips asm" courses (I hope my translations are correct). We have LST lab where we are supposed to put various 74xx chips into circuits, then analyze how they work. Teacher suggested that we simulate those circuits in home, with a "CAD" software (better marks) - well, the only app I've heard about is Circuit Maker which is... outdated. 15yo. It was written apparently for Win 95 - on modern OS (Win8 64bit) it's no-go. Is there any modern alternative to CM that has not too steep learning curve?

PS.I don't need professional package - it's going to be 6 circuits in total.

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Ask the teacher or the lab assistant or whomever you are supposed to contact in case of problems for a list of suggestions. For such a specialized tool, I'd expect them to be able to suggest freely available one, or provide access to licensed one. – AProgrammer Feb 26 at 14:11
There are a few in Ubuntu. – Gilles♦ Feb 26 at 19:25

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Perhaps the Fedora Electronics Lab spin (a Linux distribution with open source tools for the above as a LiveDVD) is of help? I'm no expert in the area, and it seems outdated (release in 2009), but it might save the day...

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Thanks, I'll evaluate that in VM. Btw it has been updated recently - just around Fedora 18 release. – Szymon Szydełko Feb 26 at 14:26
Great, hope it works for you. BTW, look for the spim MIPS simulator, it interprets assembly language directly (and I understand faithfully). For a lightweight C compiler for MIPS, look for LCC (the original, today the code is at Google). – vonbrand Feb 26 at 14:28

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