What software do you use to draw communication systems?

I have been working on a project and it has come time to put a report
together.  Is there any software that will allow me to draw my filters
(tap delay line style, with the circles with X's for multipliers and
things to that effect) so I dont have to actually "draw" them with MSPaint
or something to that effect?

Thanks,

David

daviddoria wrote:
> I have been working on a project and it has come time to put a report
> together.  Is there any software that will allow me to draw my filters
> (tap delay line style, with the circles with X's for multipliers and
> things to that effect) so I dont have to actually "draw" them with MSPaint
> or something to that effect?
>
> Thanks,
> 
> David

My personal favorite for most aplications is Visio.

Ken

Ken Asbury wrote:

> daviddoria wrote:
> 
>>I have been working on a project and it has come time to put a report
>>together.  Is there any software that will allow me to draw my filters
>>(tap delay line style, with the circles with X's for multipliers and
>>things to that effect) so I dont have to actually "draw" them with MSPaint
>>or something to that effect?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>David
> 
> 
> My personal favorite for most aplications is Visio.
> 
> Ken
> 
OpenOffice draw is also adequate, it's free and the office suite it's 
part of is outstanding (http://www.openoffice.org).  I can't say it has 
as much potential as Visio for the power user, but I get by just fine, 
thank you very much.

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daviddoria wrote:
> I have been working on a project and it has come time to put a report
> together.  Is there any software that will allow me to draw my filters
> (tap delay line style, with the circles with X's for multipliers and
> things to that effect) so I dont have to actually "draw" them with MSPaint
> or something to that effect?

I personally use Andy's ASCII Art Editor:

http://www.tech-chat.de/download.html

I prefer source code and documentation in the same file.

Regards,
Andor

I have been getting by with using the drawing editor in MS Word. It's object 
orientated so I have been creating my own libraries then it's just a matter 
of dragging and dropping the objects onto a report then grouping them 
together.

If you were to attach the images from MS Paint to a report they would look 
highly pixilated.

Thomas

"daviddoria" <doriad@rpi.edu> wrote in message 
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>I have been working on a project and it has come time to put a report
> together.  Is there any software that will allow me to draw my filters
> (tap delay line style, with the circles with X's for multipliers and
> things to that effect) so I dont have to actually "draw" them with MSPaint
> or something to that effect?
>
> Thanks,
>
> David
>
> 

But there is nothing that is made for doing tihs??? I find that a little
hard to believe haha.

David

>I have been getting by with using the drawing editor in MS Word. It's
object 
>orientated so I have been creating my own libraries then it's just a
matter 
>of dragging and dropping the objects onto a report then grouping them 
>together.
>
>If you were to attach the images from MS Paint to a report they would
look 
>highly pixilated.
>
>Thomas
>
>"daviddoria" <doriad@rpi.edu> wrote in message 
>news:Z6udnW7HiLP9rDzZnZ2dnUVZ_rmdnZ2d@giganews.com...
>>I have been working on a project and it has come time to put a report
>> together.  Is there any software that will allow me to draw my filters
>> (tap delay line style, with the circles with X's for multipliers and
>> things to that effect) so I dont have to actually "draw" them with
MSPaint
>> or something to that effect?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> David
>>
>> 
>
>
>

daviddoria wrote:
> I have been working on a project and it has come time to put a report
> together.  Is there any software that will allow me to draw my filters
> (tap delay line style, with the circles with X's for multipliers and
> things to that effect) so I dont have to actually "draw" them with MSPaint
> or something to that effect?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> David
> 
> 

Not it's intended application (it's a analog circuit simulator) but you 
might find its schematic drawing portion of interest.

  LTSpice by Linear Technology Corporation
  http://www.linear.com/designtools/softwareRegistration.jsp

I've mused on some applications the authors *NEVER* intended. YMMV

I was considering it as a "laboratory" for an electronics section of a 
9th grade science course. Just another 5 years so I can retire and do 
something useful ;)

"daviddoria" <doriad@rpi.edu> wrote in message
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> But there is nothing that is made for doing tihs??? I find that a little
> hard to believe haha.

If you have lots of money you can buy block diagram based simulation tools
that'll let you print I guess - Check out Mathworks Simulink or Elanis
SystemView.

Cheers
Bhaskar


>
> David
>
> >I have been getting by with using the drawing editor in MS Word. It's
> object
> >orientated so I have been creating my own libraries then it's just a
> matter
> >of dragging and dropping the objects onto a report then grouping them
> >together.
> >
> >If you were to attach the images from MS Paint to a report they would
> look
> >highly pixilated.
> >
> >Thomas
> >
> >"daviddoria" <doriad@rpi.edu> wrote in message
> >news:Z6udnW7HiLP9rDzZnZ2dnUVZ_rmdnZ2d@giganews.com...
> >>I have been working on a project and it has come time to put a report
> >> together.  Is there any software that will allow me to draw my filters
> >> (tap delay line style, with the circles with X's for multipliers and
> >> things to that effect) so I dont have to actually "draw" them with
> MSPaint
> >> or something to that effect?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> David
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
>
>

daviddoria wrote:
> I have been working on a project and it has come time to put a report
> together.  Is there any software that will allow me to draw my filters
> (tap delay line style, with the circles with X's for multipliers and
> things to that effect) so I dont have to actually "draw" them with MSPaint
> or something to that effect?
>
> Thanks,
>
> David

If you don't care about quality, then use anything you like - there
have been several good suggestions here.

If you do care about quality, I suggest you use the LaTeX
typesetting system and the PSTricks macro package,
which allow you to create postscript drawings directly
from within LaTeX. This means, for example, you can
typeset textual labels in the same font as the text (a
nice touch) as well as equations of any complexity
in the drawing (e.g., as a label for the y-axis of some
function).

If you want to get even more twisted, try
Circuit_macros,


http://www.ece.uwaterloo.ca/~aplevich/Circuit_macros/html/examples.pdf

Some nice examples are in this paper:


http://www.ece.uwaterloo.ca/~aplevich/Circuit_macros/html/examples.pdf

--Randy

Randy Yates wrote:
> [...]
> If you do care about quality, I suggest you use the LaTeX
> typesetting system and the PSTricks macro package,
> which allow you to create postscript drawings directly
> from within LaTeX.

PS: Figures 2, 3 and 5 in my digital communications
homework assignment were done using this method:

  http://www.digitalsignallabs.com/dchw4.pdf

--Randy