Date: Sat, 30 Apr 88 15:36:18 EDT
From: Don Troxel <troxel@CAF.MIT.EDU>
To: eichin@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Your thesis

I have read through your draft of a user's guide and made some comments
on it.  On Monday, I will leave it in an enveloped taped to the hall
door to my office area.
I think it is a good start for the user's guide and doesn't need too
much more.  Of course, the program modifier's guide needs to have more
detail.  Some of the comments are:
At the end of Chp 2 it would be nice to include two figures, namely
the schematic of a simple circuit and the listing of the wire
declarations, etc. that the user would have to insert in mysim.c to
simulate that circuit.
In Chp 3, most of that can be left for the user reference manual.
It might be nice to include a simple example of what a user might
want to define, how about an XOR gate?
In Chp 4, the oscilloscope program can actually generate an input
data file.  Perhaps other tools would also be nice, but we can leave
that for future student projects.  Here it would be nice to include a
specific example.  How about a figure(s) showing a simple input
waveform (and the corresponding data file) and also the output
data file (and waveform) produced by running the sample program
(referred to above) with the input data file (see abnove)?
In App A, it would be really usefule to include a delay module and a D
flip-flop with asynchronous set and clear.