electruth is a collection of boolean logic tools. It can be used as both a command-line tool and a Python library. It understands boolean algebra (to some extent) and can be used to simplify boolean expressions using the Quine-McClusky method. This can be useful if you have a truth table in need of basic shortening. electruth can also be used to compare boolean expressions, which can be very useful if you need to compare a truth table with a schematic you created based on that truth table. electruth can also be used to transform complex boolean expressions into simpler ones consisting only of ANDS, ORS and NOTS.
electruth is free software under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3 (or any later version). This is version 0.2.0 of the program, the first version to support Python 3.1+ (if you need support for Python 2.6+, you should download v0.1.1).
The libraries used by electruth are GPL-compatible.
Run this in a terminal:
# python3 setup.py install
Python 3.1+ is a requirement.
qvikconfig
- Web address: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/qvikconfig/
- License: GPLv3+
- Installing:
$ sudo easy_install qvikconfig
- Author: Niels Serup
Note that qvikconfig
is included with electruth, so you don't really have to install it.
If present, electruth will also use these Python modules:
termcolor
- Web address: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/termcolor/
- License: GPLv3+
- Installing:
$ sudo easy_install termcolor
- Author: Konstantin Lepa <konstantin lepa at gmail com>
Note that termcolor
is included with electruth, so you don't really have to install it.
setproctitle
- Web address: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setproctitle/
- License: New BSD License
- Installing:
$ sudo easy_install setproctitle
- Author: Daniele Varrazzo <daniele varrazzo at gmail com>
Installing electruth installs a command-line utility named electruth
. This program has many settings, and it's recommended to run electruth --help
to get an overview of them.
The program creates boolean expressions from whatever input you give it. If you give it more than one input, it will compare the two inputs (unless if you tell it not to do that). Many inputs are supported:
- Basic boolean expressions (e.g.
A and (B or C)
orA * (B + C)
(the same)) - Truthtables, using tab-separated (.tsv) or comma-separated (.csv) values in a file, the first row specifying the names of the inputs and outputs with a
<
prefix for inputs and a>
prefix for outputs. - Netlists (.net), e.g. those generated from
gnetlist
from the gEDA project (gEDA schematics fromgschem
can also be loaded, but they will be converted to netlists (saved in temporary files) at first).
Some settings can also be set in a config file. Config files use a property = value
syntax (e.g. auto compare = false
) separated by newlines.
To see the help for electruth, run:
pydoc3 electruth
And especially:
pydoc3 electruth.booleanexpression
pydoc3 electruth.netlist
pydoc3 electruth.truthtable
electruth's current logo has been put into the public domain.
Copyright (C) 2010, 2011 Niels Serup
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