The goal of this paper is to present a new approach to the pole-placement algorithm in digital control systems by using mathematic model blocks in VisSim software package environment. A digital design example, satellite attitude control system, based on the pole-placement algorithm is given. The theoretical state feedback controller can be obtained. An alternative approach using VisSim to automatically calculate the digital state feedback controller has been verified to be a very powerful method to avoid tedious theoretical design. The digital pole-placement controller can be easily obtained without the theoretical design. The satisfied results are shown in this paper.