BareMetal-C

setup simulide:

0. Prerequisite:

• Before install simulide, you must have installed the tools. See setup tools.

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1. Download and install SimulIDE:

• Download SimulIDE from SimulIDE download page.
  • Select Last Stable Version, and select Operating System to be Windows 64 for Windows and MacOs x86 for macOS.
  • You may put in 0 as the donation amount. Then click Download.

• macOS: unzip the download and drag simulide to your Applications folder.

• Windows: unzip the download. Rename the folder from SimulIDE_1.1.x... to simulide. There’s no installer for Windows. Change NAME to your username below:

  • Put simulide folder in: C:\Users\NAME\Documents so this file exists:

    C:\Users\NAME\Documents\simulide\simulide.exe

  • Go into C:\Users\NAME\Documents\simulide\ folder, right click on simulide.exe and select Pin to Start

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2. Set class subcircuits

• Launch simulide. It will probably not run the first time.

• Windows: You may get a prompt that simulide is a software downloaded from the internet. Allow it to run.

• macOS: Go to System Settings → Privacy & Security → scroll to bottom, you will see:

  "simulide" was blocked to protect your Mac
  

  • Click Open Anyway. Provide TouchID or password to allow it.
  • It may prompt:

    To open this app, you need to install Rosetta. Do you want to install it now?
    

    Make sure you install Rosetta. simulide needs it.

• Start simulide. You will get the main window that looks like this:

  

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• (1 in picture above) Click the ⚙ gear icon on the top left (to the right of Search Components box
• (2 in picture above) Settings window will appear. Select App tab. On the bottom there is:

  User Data folder:
  <blank>            [ ... ]
  

  • Click the ... button and choose folder: Documents/BareMetal-C-Labs/sim/subcircuits/
  • macOS: While still in Settings window, click Circuit and check ☑ Show ScrollBars
• Close simulide and restart it.
• 1. On leftmost side, select Components tab, a column on components will show, starting from Meters, Sources, etc.

• 2. Scroll down all the way to the bottom, you should see BMC Subcircuits and BMC Subblocks. These are the design used for our class.

  See picture below:

  

• You can close simulide now. It’s ready for use.

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3. Test that subcircuit is set correctly

• Run simulide and click Open Circuit

  

• Choose Documents/BareMetal-C/sim/05_freq_200kHz.sim1

• The following picture should show up. Note the area in red rectangle.

  

Troubleshooting:

The cause for missing circuit in the red rectangle above is not setting User Data Folder (subcircuits) correctly. Go back to the previous section and fix it.

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4. Set up Visual Studio Code (VS Code)

Goto set up VS Code.

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