MetaMorph Helps non-Engineers Design Circuits (Video)

Posted by Roblimo on Friday July 10, 2015 @07:52AM from the another-step-on-the-road-toward-unskilled-labor-replacing-skilled-engineers dept.

MetaMorph grew out of Vanderbilt University’s Institute for Software Integrated Systems. The introduction video you see here explains and steps you through its basic operation. The second "bonus" video goes a little deeper into the software's function. And the transcript covers everything in both videos, so if you prefer reading to watching you aren't left out -- except for the visual design process walk-through, of course. It's all open source, and their site has free demos available, so if you want to try your hand at designing circuitry with MetaMorph, go right ahead.

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Wow. by drolli · 2015-07-10 09:42 · Score: 2

What are you guys talking about?
a) Tools which generate schematics from functional descriptions have been around for some time.
b) Block-level graphical editors for devices have been around for some time
c) The assumption that the difficult part about engineering an electronic device is drawing the final diagram, is IMHO a complete misunderstanding of the topic. The best we can get from this is the hardware equivalent of the myriad of badly written Javascript and PHP combinations of pseudo-code-moneys who believe that knowing the fundamentals of CompSci is not needed.