THE FOLLOWING INSTRUCTIONS ARE GENERAL AND YOU WILL PROBABLY NEED TO PLAY AROUND WITH THE TOOL. START BY CREATING A SIMPLE CIRCUIT (MAYBE JUST A ONE GATE CIRCUIT).

1. FROM PROGRAMS START THE MAX+plus II TOOL.
2. GO TO MAX+plus II AND CHOOSE GRAPHIC EDITOR
3. FILE-> NEW-> GRAPHIC EDITOR FILE (.gdf)
4. RIGHT CLICK AND CHOOSE "ENTER SYMBOL".
5. CHOOSE THE SYMBOL LIBRARY maxplus2\max2lib\prim AND PRESS O.K.
6. FROM THE SYMBOL FILES THAT WILL APPEAR CHOOSE TYPE OF GATE SUCH AS AND2 (2 INPUTS ONE OUTPUT) AND PESS OK. THAT ACTION WILL PLACE THE GATE ON THE GRAPHICAL PANE.
7. CONTINUE CHOOSING ALL THE GATES THAT YOU NEED FOR THE CIRCUIT AND PLACING THEM ON THE PANE.
8. CHOOSE INPUTS THEN CHOOSE OUTPUTS FOR THE PARTICULAR GATE (S) AND LABEL THEM ACCORDINGLY. THE INPUTS AND OUTPUTS ARE CHOSEN FROM THE SAME MENU AS THE VARIOUS GATES (INPUT AND OUTPUT ARE SEPARATE COMPONEMTS IN THE MENU).
9. ASSOCIATE EACH INPUT AND OUTPUT WITH THE PROPER GATE BY DOING A DRAG AND DROP .RIGHT CLICK ON EACH INPUT OR OUTPUT AND GO TO ENTER NODES/BUS NAME. ENTER A LABEL FOR EACH NODE YOU ARE INTERESTED AT.
10. REPEAT PROCESS FOR REST OF GATES NEEDED TO COMPLETE THE CIRCUIT.
11. TO MAKE CONNECTIONS RIGHT CLICK AND DRAG FROM SOURCE TO DESTINATION.
12. SAVE THE FILE.
13. FILE->PROJECT->SET PROPERTIES TO CURRENT FILE.
14. IN ORDER TO COMPILE GO TO MAX+plusII-> PRESS COMPILE
15. GO TO MAX+plusII AND CHOOSE WAVEFORM EDITOR FILE ( SIMULATION RUNS HERE).
16. FILE SAVED AS .scf IN THE SAME DIRECTORY AS THE FIRST FILE (THE .gdf FILE).
17. IN .scf G TO NODE -> ENTER NODES FROM SNF (SIMULATION NEXT FILE)
18. FIND THE I/O
19. ENTER LOGIC LEVELS AND PRESS "SIMULATE".