Experience-based teaching materials of logic circuits for beginners

At an open campus, it is necessary to prepare intuitive experience‐based teaching materials for high school students without technical knowledge. In this teaching material, which is based on an algorithm derived from the MA method (i.e., the method of Ref. 1), the students can sequentially experience the following functions using X‐Windows under UNIX: multilevel NAND circuit generation, simplification of the initially constructed circuit, proper rearrangement of circuit elements, verification of the resulting circuit, time chart display, etc. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Electr Eng Jpn, 168(4): 1–5, 2009; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/eej.20860