Simulide in academics and education?

Since I use simulide regularily in my lecture course as tool, I would like to get in contact with other lecturers. It would be great to see, how others use the tool in education. There is also funding for joined lectures / ideas possible.

Don't hestiate to write me.

I am also a teacher and I use this wonderful program in lectures and in practical classes with students. A few years ago I was looking for a free digital circuit simulator and found this program. The first acquaintance with the program was unsuccessful, since there were very few models of digital chips in the program, and I was not interested in microcontrollers. About a year later, the second acquaintance with the program took place. I found that you can add models of digital chips to it yourself. This interested me very much and I started adding them to the program and sharing them with all users. Now there are quite a lot of models in the program and I have the opportunity to conduct full-fledged lessons with a demonstration of fairly complex digital circuits. Also, together with students, I study programming of AVR microcontrollers (ATmega328) in assembler and Arduino. I believe that the program's capabilities are sufficient to study the basics of digital technology, programming microcontrollers, and partial study of analog electronics and electrical engineering. I really hope for the further development of the program.

École Polytechnique de Montréal is the University of Montreal engineering school.  They have launched course INF1900 - Projet initial de système embarqué where participants build a robot car model with an Atmega AVR controller.

Highlights
- you build a Poly branded development board Uno equivalent
- install Visual Studio Code and AVR-GCC toolchain on linux
- build a git repository
- simulate your circuit hardware and test software on SimulIDE

Link to course info
https://cours.polymtl.ca/inf1900/

Fizik_S wrote:I am also a teacher and I use this wonderful program in lectures and in practical classes with students. A few years ago I was looking for a free digital circuit simulator and found this program. The first acquaintance with the program was unsuccessful, since there were very few models of digital chips in the program, and I was not interested in microcontrollers. About a year later, the second acquaintance with the program took place. I found that you can add models of digital chips to it yourself. This interested me very much and I started adding them to the program and sharing them with all users. Now there are quite a lot of models in the program and I have the opportunity to conduct full-fledged lessons with a demonstration of fairly complex digital circuits. Also, together with students, I study programming of AVR microcontrollers (ATmega328) in assembler and Arduino. I believe that the program's capabilities are sufficient to study the basics of digital technology, programming microcontrollers, and partial study of analog electronics and electrical engineering. I really hope for the further development of the program.

Hi Fizik,
I'm a programmer and electronics hobbist and I'm becoming a fan of SimulIDE. You say that you can add models of digital chips to it. Can you give  more information and details? Where can I find tutorials or any sort of help?

Thanks

blitobyte wrote:
Hi Fizik,
I'm a programmer and electronics hobbist and I'm becoming a fan of SimulIDE. You say that you can add models of digital chips to it. Can you give  more information and details? Where can I find tutorials or any sort of help?

Thanks

Hello, blitobyte.
Information on creating models of digital chips can be found here:

https://www.simulide.com/p/tutorials-0415.html

https://www.simulide.com/p/new-subcircuits.html
https://www.simulide.com/p/boards.html

Hello,
I ask about „internet-access“ in the forum some time ago. It seems there were big interest by the users!   But for the component "ESP01" it looks like a long way…?!? :-/

In my opinion, an improvised solution would be acceptable for the most users at the moment – a simple internal "bridge" or something like that…?!?
I must realize that I am not able to implement that. :-(

…or is this in opposition to the philosophy of SimulIDE…?!? :-/

Anyway… I think:
„internet-access“ in SimulIDE is a "unique feature" and a "must have"!!!

best regards

Fizik_S wrote:

blitobyte wrote:
Hi Fizik,
I'm a programmer and electronics hobbist and I'm becoming a fan of SimulIDE. You say that you can add models of digital chips to it. Can you give  more information and details? Where can I find tutorials or any sort of help?

Thanks

Hello, blitobyte.
Information on creating models of digital chips can be found here:

https://www.simulide.com/p/tutorials-0415.html

https://www.simulide.com/p/new-subcircuits.html
https://www.simulide.com/p/boards.html

Thanks Fizik