Digital Logic Simulator Guide
Build and simulate AND, OR, NOT, NAND, NOR, XOR gates and more — drag from the palette, wire them together, press Run.
1. Palette
- I/O: Input, Output, Clock, Logic 1 / Logic 0 constants, LED, 7-segment display.
- Gates: AND, NAND, OR, NOR (each has a ▾ flyout for a 3-input variant), XOR, XNOR, NOT, BUF, tri-state buffer, 2:1 and 4:1 multiplexers.
- Arithmetic: Half Adder, Full Adder.
- MSI: 2-to-4 and 3-to-8 decoders, 4-to-2 encoder, 4-bit counter.
- Sequential: D, T, JK, SR, and gated-SR flip-flops; D-latch.
- Click any palette button to drop that block onto the canvas.
2. Connecting gates with wires
- Hold and pull: put the pointer on a gate's pin, hold the button (or your finger) down, pull the wire across to the destination pin, and let go — the connection is made.
- Or wire hands-free: tap a pin once and release. The loose wire end now follows your bare cursor around the canvas — no button held. A click on the destination pin completes the connection; a click on blank canvas plants a corner exactly where you want one. Escape or a right-click abandons the wire.
- Corners take care of themselves: whenever your path turns, the wire folds into a clean right angle on its own, and the loose end jumps onto any legal pin as soon as you come near it.
- Dashed alignment guides appear while dragging a gate when one of its pins lines up exactly with another gate's pin — release near the guide for a straight run.
- Fan-out: drop a second wire onto an existing one from the same source pin — a junction dot marks the true branch point.
3. Editing
- Select a block or wire, then press Delete/Backspace, or right-click / long-press for a context menu: Delete, Duplicate, rotate (gates), or set LED colour.
- Cmd/Ctrl+Z undo, Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+Z (or Cmd/Ctrl+Y) redo.
- Double-click a gate with a ▾ variant (AND/NAND/OR/NOR) to switch between its 2- and 3-input form.
4. Running the simulation
- ▶ Run evaluates the circuit. Click Input blocks to toggle 0/1 while running; LED and 7-Seg blocks update live.
- The simulator uses 4-value logic (0, 1, X = unknown, Z = high-impedance) with realistic per-gate propagation delays — edit them from the delay editor in the toolbar.
- ■ Stop ends the run and returns to editing.
5. Waveforms, truth tables & Boolean expressions
The panel below the canvas has three tabs, all computed from your circuit automatically:
- Waveform: a timing diagram of every net. Use Play / pause and the speed selector to step through propagation event-by-event.
- Truth Table: every input combination and the resulting outputs, generated from the circuit's logic — click a row to preview it live on the canvas.
- Expressions: the minimised Boolean sum-of-products (SOP) for each output, with a Karnaugh map.
The right-hand panel lists simulation results and any netlist issues (floating inputs, unreachable logic) so you can fix wiring problems before they cause a "Truth Table unavailable" state.
6. Files & examples
- File ▾: New, Open, Save / Save As (native file picker on Chromium; download fallback elsewhere), Import / Export JSON.
- Cmd/Ctrl+S quick-saves to the currently open file.
- Examples ▾: load a ready-made circuit — basic gates, adders, decoders, counters — to explore or build on.
- Your circuit auto-saves to the browser locally as you work — nothing leaves the device.
Keyboard shortcuts
Del / Backspace
Delete selected block or wire
Esc
Cancel current wire draw
Cmd/Ctrl+Z
Undo
Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+Z
Redo
Cmd/Ctrl+S
Save