![]() ![]() Freshman students really liked to work with it. The student version of CircuitMaker based on CircuitMaker 6 is available for students on the web and on the CD-ROM accompanying the class textbook, Tocci and Widmer’s Digital Systems. Way Master Teacher training session held at Rochester Institute of Technology. ![]() The author learned to use this package at a Project Lead The Digital Electronics is one of the courses in the PLTW curriculum and CircuitMaker is the circuit drawing and simulation package that high school students in Indiana and across the country are using. Project Lead The Way is a non-profit organization that provides a pre-engineering curriculum to middle schools and high schools. CircuitMaker 2000 is the circuit simulator that Project Lead The Way (PLTW) has selected for the Digital Electronics course delivered in the sophomore year in high school. It has some flashy output devices such as “smart” ASCII displays, stepper motors and even a rocket launcher. Problems are more readily identified as the student views the action and “what if” questions are provoked leading to extensions of the circuit under study. ![]() The most outstanding impact is that the free-running nature of the simulation operation, in which the high voltage wires are colored red and the low voltage wires are colored blue, engages the student immediately. That posture has changed with the introduction of CircuitMaker in these freshmen classes. INTRODUCTION In the past, many EET freshmen in the author’s digital courses have not embraced digital simulation. This paper presents this software and some of the digital systems that have been implemented. The simulator has been used to introduce students to digital systems such as synchronous and asynchronous serial communication systems, multipliers, keypad encoders, stepper motor positioning systems, data bus display multiplexers, and memory bus systems. The students have responded enthusiastically to this package. ![]() Because the CM simulations are presented in quasi-real-time with high logic level lines presented in red and low logic levels in blue, the students gain an immediate sense of the dynamic nature of circuit operation. The author has taught this package to Indiana teachers at the PLTW Summer Training Institue at Purdue University and he has used it in his freshman digital electronics courses. High school teachers teaching the PLTW Digital Electronics course throughout Indiana and the country use this simulation software. The author was introduced to CircuitMaker 2000 through his involvement with Project Lead The Way (PLTW). Session 1B USE OF CIRCUITMAKER AS A DIGITAL SIMULATION TOOL IN FRESHMEN EET COURSES Gerard Foster1 Abstract ?ĬircuitMaker (CM) is a digital and analog simulation application that is well suited for the introduction of digital electronics. ![]()
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