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The growth of computer graphics is remarkable even compared with the growth of the computers. Many computer-aided-design systems have used computer graphics as an important tool. Computer graphics can provide a designer with a visual graphical input and output means, which are usually more convenient and immediately understandable by the user than the conventional method. This paper presents a study in design of a flexible interactive graphic processor for digital logic simulation systems. We design the input means so that it is concise, easy-to-use, error-preventive and menu driven. We provide a powerful graphic editing capability so that the user may create, erase, copy and move symbols, wires, labels and a block of area in the schematic diagram. We apply a relational database support to the graphic processor so that it is suitable for not only one simulation program.
Lin is with CTCI Corporation, which sponsored his study at NTU.
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Jea, YH., Lin, TC. (1983). An Interactive Graphic Processor for Digital Logic Simulation System. In: Kunii, T.L. (eds) Computer Graphics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-85962-5_2
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