CircuitSim v1.9.1

Site and download links: https://ra4king.github.io/CircuitSim

Basic circuit simulator with many built-in components. Check out src/com/ra4king/circuitsim/simulator/components for examples of how Components are written. Their GUI counterparts are in src/com/ra4king/circuitsim/gui/peers.

Screenshot

Building

The provided gradle scripts can be used to easily build a JAR file. Just run /.gradlew jar on Linux or /.gradlew.bat jar on Windows!

The release directory contains a build.sh script that automatically builds the JAR, and generates an executable image for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

Changelog

1.9.1

• Hotfix for ROM component not saving its contents to disk.

1.9.0

• The grid background can now be hidden: View -> uncheck Show grid
• Circuits can be exported as image files: File -> Export as images
• New component: 7-segment display
• Updated components: probes and constants can now display in multiple formats.
• Integer inputs now accept multiple formats: decimal, binary, and hex
• RAM and ROM editors have been improved, and ROM edits now support undo and redo.
• Remove the ability to negate the NOT gate's input, this looks to have been an oversight.
• Improve placement and display of gates with negated inputs and more than 5 inputs: no more "floating" inputs. Inputs are now either directly attached to the gate's body or have a line linking them to the gate. This is backwards compatible by maintaining the previous behavior for older save files.

1.8.5

• New component: Breakpoint component that automatically stops the clock at a particular input value
• New component: Power and Ground components that are pretty much just the 1-bit constants 1 and 0 respectively
• Fixed a deadlock issue in Clock
• Fixed possible race conditions where the circuit was modified while it's being accessed outside the simulator lock

1.8.4

• Hotfix for an issue that leads to erroneous Short Circuit messages when there are none

1.8.3

• RAM now has the option to have separate load/store ports
• The transistor has been updated with a more accurate version. This is backwards compatible by deprecating the old transistor and replacing it with a new component

1.8.2

• Hotfix for issue with buffer component where setting a label causes a NullPointerException
• Hotfix for issue with memory editor for both RAM and ROM components where pasting 16 or more values causes it to skip a column every 16th value
• Improve error message window to include "Save and Exit"

1.8.1

• Significant performance and memory usage improvements
• Holding CTRL will keep a component selected after placing it
• Circuit file generation is now deterministic
• Fix subcircuit pin count mismatch errors
• Fix display of Output pin, where it used to be printed as Input pin
• Fix saving ROM contents after being broken in 1.8.0
• (Breaking change) Fix subcircuit pin ordering on the east and west side by sorting by Y instead of X

1.8.0

• Revamp ROM/RAM component look: now showing the current address and value
• Revamp ROM/RAM memory editor: no need to double click to start typing, no need to hit enter to commit, full multi-cell copy/paste support
• Huge improvement and bug-fixes to wire behavior when moving components and with undo/redo
• Add RandomGenerator component
• Add copy/cut/paste to context menu in circuit editor
• Display missing label names in certain components
• Add All Files option in Load File dialog
• Fixed bug with gates where downsizing the number of inputs kept the extra Negate options

1.7.4

• Fix several bugs with wire creation when dragging components
• Give an option to send an error report upon unexpected errors
• Minor bug fixes

1.7.3

• Fix blue wire issues with Tunnels and subcircuits
• Highlight wires when clicking on them
• Ctrl+scroll now zooms in/out
• Right clicking when placing components or dragging wires cancels the action
• Fix bug with intersecting wires being auto-joined on drag
• Improved error handling

1.7.2

• Add Probe component, which lets you observe values on wires without resorting to output pins
• Improve behavior multi-component selection when holding down control by disabling drag-less wire creation when control is held down
• Copy doesn't do anything when nothing is selected instead of emptying the clipboard
• Other minor bugs fixed

1.7.1

• Squashed tunnel bugs: now short-circuits should propagate properly across them and tunnels should work properly
• Added comparison type to Comparator: now you can do both 2's complement and unsigned comparison
• Draw magnifying glass to subcircuit components when hovering over them to indicate ability to view internal state
• Officially making a file format change supporting library paths
• Other minor bugs fixed

1.7.0

• Big thanks to Cem Gokmen for helping with the Mac issues and Austin Adams for gradle-ifying the repo!
• Now supporting both Java 8 and 9 - thanks to Austin Adams for figuring out how to create a multi-release Jar
• Huge rendering performance improvements, especially for Mac
• Fixed keyboard shortcut issue on Mac
• Use system menu bar on Mac instead of the in-app bar
• Added an update checker that notifies you when there is a new version
• Fixed a bug with subcircuits where it pushed values through output pins, causing seemingly un-explainable short circuits
• Improved behavior of tab selection when moving them or deleting them, especially with undo/redo
• Many minor bug fixes and improvements

1.6.2

• Fixed exceptions being thrown when using Tunnels
• Now you don't have hit enter to update a text or value property, someone complained that it was annoying. The component is automatically updated when you unfocus from the text input
• Multi-bit wires with a floating bit (X) now show up as dark blue instead of black
• Button now has directions

1.6.1

• Improved behavior when dragging components to also delete wires whenever they overlap existing ones
• Huge performance increases with subcircuits and tunnels. Bad designs will still be very slow to run the autograder in
• Now showing Help dialog on first run

1.6.0

• Added creation of new wires when dragging components. This allows maintaining existing connections when dragging components to new locations
• Hold CTRL before beginning the drag to disable this
• Fixed file load issue where an error was thrown if the folder doesn't exist anymore
• Fixed issues with dragging + keyboard shortcuts
• Fixed an undo bug when updating components