SMOK tips from your fellow students

• When placing items on the screen, make sure all items are "in-bounds" because when you save and reload a machine with out-of-bounds items, they automatically get pushed back into the bounds and mess up all the wiring.
• You can't shrink MUXes. If you do, it will look fine until you quit and reload the file. Then the lower (control) input will shift to its original location where you won't be able to make a connection to it. The same exact phylosophy applies to the register file. Make sure that all of the input stay inbounds of the window and don't shrink it.
• Most other components can be reduced, the only side effect of it is that the lines will look like they are originating from the orginal boundary of the object.
• Size a container or controller inside your main page first before you start putting stuff in it. Resizing does not work!
• Before starting, partition the screen evenly into 9 containers to make up for the lack of scroll bars and zoom. It is easier to go in between containers using passerelles if they overlap enough that the edges of adjacent containers are visible when zoomed in.
• Try setting up input passerelles equivalent to all the connections for the register file so that you can just hide it. In general the hide feature in combination with passerelles is useful but it doesn't get saved.