{"id":226,"date":"2017-09-06T10:01:33","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T17:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/logic.ly\/blog\/?p=226"},"modified":"2017-09-06T10:01:51","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T17:01:51","slug":"logicly-1-8-generate-truth-table-and-pull-up-pull-down-circuits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/logic.ly\/blog\/2017\/09\/logicly-1-8-generate-truth-table-and-pull-up-pull-down-circuits\/","title":{"rendered":"Logicly 1.8: Generate truth table and pull up\/down circuits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, I&#8217;m happy to announce the official release of <a href=\"\/download\/\">Logicly version 1.8<\/a>. This version adds some very useful new features that I think you&#8217;ll love. Truth tables have been requested many times over the years, and now they&#8217;re finally available. Additionally, you can now add Pull Up and Pull Down circuits to your projects to ensure that the Hi-Z signal doesn&#8217;t propagate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/logic.ly\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/logicly-truth-table.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-168\" src=\"\/\/logic.ly\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/logicly-truth-table.png\" alt=\"Screenshot of Logicly Truth Table\" width=\"450\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you click the new <strong>Generate Truth Table<\/strong> button on the toolbar, you&#8217;ll see a table pop up with all of the inputs (toggle switches) and outputs (light bulbs) in the document. You don&#8217;t necessarily need to create a truth table for the entire project, though. If you prefer, you can select a small subset of your project, and you can generate the truth table for only that selection. Finally, when you drill down into the design of a custom integrated circuit, you can click a button to generate the truth table for the IC.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/logic.ly\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/logicly-pull-up-pull-down.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-168\" src=\"\/\/logic.ly\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/logicly-pull-up-pull-down.png\" alt=\"Screenshot of Pull Up and Pull Down circuits\" width=\"335\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pull Up<\/strong> and <strong>Pull Down<\/strong> component are useful when working with the Hi-Z (High Impedance) signal. Normally, these components work similarly to a Buffer component. If the input signal is High (true) or Low (false), then these components will output those signals completely unchanged. However, if an input signal is Hi-Z, the Pull Up component will &#8220;pull it up&#8221; to High (true), and similarly, the Pull Down component will &#8220;pull it down&#8221; to Low (false).<\/p>\n<p>Finally, I think everyone will enjoy some performance optimizations that help Logicly read files and create custom integrated circuits faster. In some cases, I measured a 30% improvement or more!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/logic.ly\/download\/\">Download Logicly 1.8<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Please point your browser to the <a href=\"http:\/\/logic.ly\/download\/\">Logicly download page<\/a>, or go to the Help menu in Logicly and choose <strong>Check for Updates<\/strong>. If you&#8217;ve been playing with the free trial, and you like what you see, maybe now is the perfect time to <a href=\"\/purchase\/\">buy Logicly<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, I&#8217;m happy to announce the official release of Logicly version 1.8. This version adds some very useful new features that I think you&#8217;ll love. Truth tables have been requested many times over the years, and now they&#8217;re finally available. 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