What is Electronic PAD?

An integrated, computer-aided engineering package that turns a Macintosh or a Lisa into an engineering workstation for digital circuit design. The program enables you to produce professional-quality schematics and provides complete fault and logic simulation of the design, reducing debugging time in the prototype stage. PAD provides nine primitive logic functions—AND, OR, NAMD, NOR, XOR, XNOR, Inverter, D flip-flop, and JK flip-flop—which you select from a "palette" and place on the screen. You can connect pins using the mouse and label the functions to reduct off-the-shelf parts, creating a parts library. Designs are not restricted to the size of the Mac's screen.

PAD's logic analysis feature allows you to test part tolerances; signal generation can be modified to test for worst case, allowing you to flag potential problem areas. Waveforms produced by probing the circuit at any location show logic errors that can be traced back to their source by probing earlier levels of the design.

Nielson, Erfert (Ed.). (March 1985). Macware News. Macworld. (pg. 98).

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Architecture

Motorola 68K

System Requirements

From Mac OS 1.0 up to Mac OS 6.0

Compatibility notes

Emulating this? It could probably run under: Mini vMac