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NAME
       tkgate - Tcl/Tk based digital circuit editor and simulator


SYNOPSIS
       tkgate [-xqs] [-X script] [-l file] [-p file] [-P printer] [files...]


DESCRIPTION
       TkGate  is  a  graphical  editor  and  event  driven  simulator  for digital circuits with a tcl/tk-based
       interface.  Supported circuit elements include basic gates (AND,  OR,  etc.),  tri-state  gates,  adders,
       multipliers, registers, memories and mos transistors.  Hierarchical design is also supported with support
       for user defined modules.  Save files are based on the Verilog netlist format.

       TkGate documentation can be found at:

       http://www.tkgate.org


OPTIONS
       The options are as follows:

       -X script      Automatically start the simulator and execute the specified simulation script.

       -p file        Print circuit to file without starting GUI.

       -P printer     Print circuit to printer without starting GUI.

       -l file        Read the specified file as a library.

       -x             Automatically start the simulator.

       -q             Suppress startup messages.

       -s             Excute with a synchronous X server connection.  This option is primarily for debugging.

       -L lang        Specify a locality to use if tkgate has been configued for Japanese support.  The locality
                      should be either "ASCII" for English, or "ja_JP.EUC" for Japanese. This option can also be
                      set via the LANG environment variable.


HISTORY & CREDITS
       TkGate begin life as an undergraduate project at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in 1987.  At that  time
       it  was  called  simply 'gate' and ran under the 'wm' window manager, a windowing system developed at CMU
       before X11 was widely used.  In this incarnation it was used by students  in  the  computer  architecture
       course  at  CMU to develop a simple microprocessor (dubbed "The Bat Computer").  After laying dormant for
       several years, it was resurrected in 1991 and ported to run  under  X11  with  the  Xlib  API.   In  this
       incarnation it was used several times by students in the introductory digital logic course, but after the
       author graduated and left CMU, it went into hibernation again.  This  Tcl/Tk  incarnation  was  begun  in
       1998.   While  there  is  certainly  some  cruftyness in the implementation in places due to the multiple
       reincarnations, many new features have been added since the older wm and X11 versions, and the  interface
       has been made much easier to use.


SEE ALSO
       gmac(1)


AUTHOR
       Jeffery Hansen (hansen@tkgate.org)


       Copyright (c) 1987-2007 by Jeffery Hansen

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