LogicWorks 5 Interactive Software

Guys, if the $30ish Warehouse Deals option is still available, take it! The one I got from them looks brand new, and I bought used! It includes the CD as well as the book. The people selling at $100 are ripoffs compared to the price Warehouse Deals is selling at the moment of this review. I haven't used the software yet, as classes haven't started. Anyways, I saved $70 thanks to Warehouse Deals!

This saved me from having to go to campus to design circuits for 4-8 hours at a time. Awesome. It is a very easy to use program and the book is of some help as well. But I really bought it for the software.

This product arrived in pristine shape exactly as advertised. The only thing that was misleading were conflicting delivery dates. Originally I expected it to arrive in 2 days when it actually took a week. Other than that it worked perfectly and I recommended purchasing used versions of this product to the rest of my classmates.

Book is trash for the most part, but the software is useful

I have used LogicWorks4 in a computer design class with fair results - (very good for small jobs - starts to get shaky with a thousand gates or so). So far in my testing, LogicWorks5 has improved on most of the features I've tried. I think it also offers an excellent way to get started in VHDL (jury still out until I try it in a class). A bit flaky still with SP1 in a few areas. Anyway - highly recommended.

I've been using LogicWorks 5 for a university course, and have discovered that it does not even attempt to implement the VHDL standard correctly (admitting as much in what little documentation there is), and that it generates entirely useless errors when it is unable to interpret a line of code; whether this inability is a result of an error in the code or one of the many bugs in logicworks itself is impossible to determine, and you're lucky if you get so much as "Syntax error" as far as a human-readable description of the error goes. Worse still, and affecting all parts (not merely the VHDL compiler) of the program, is the reasonably common error message which pops up for no clear reason declaring that a "serious error" has occurred and that "your data may be corrupted," before encouraging you to exit and restart the program as quickly as possible. I can't believe my university paid for a piece of software that never should have passed QA.

Fairly useful program for building logic circuits and getting a visual of timing aspects, but program seems too buggy to totally recommend. I only bought it because it was required for a class.

This is definitely a very good tool to learn about circuitry and such. I have to admit i only bought it because i was forced to for a class. And i did find it very pricey, seeing as we only used it for like 4 weeks! Nevertheless, it is still a good product. Definitely recommend it.