This is an electronic circuit simulator. When the applet starts up you will see an animated schematic of a simple LRC circuit. The green color indicates positive voltage. The gray color indicates ground. A red color indicates negative voltage. The moving yellow dots indicate current. To turn a switch on or off, just click on it. PCB Creator is a free, PCB layout and schematic capture software for both commercial and non-profit purposes. PCB Creator can be used to design 2 to 4 layer PCBs with 1000 pins or less and includes a 4-in-1 design environment including Schematic, PCB Layout with Autorouter, Component and Pattern Editors and 3D PCB Preview. An upgrade path is offered to the popular DipTrace software. When you come back online though, CircuitLab will sync the changes you have made to your workbench and you will be able to export your schematics. Can I link directly to my circuit page? You are encouraged to make your circuit public and link directly to the circuit page.
Figure 2.3: Complete circuit, including connectors to Arduino Note that the circuit shown in Figure 2.3 was drawn using the free version of Eagle Schematic 12. This program, which is available for Windows and Mac OS-X, can be used to draw circuits and to assist with printed circuit board development. For circuit simulations, one.
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PCB Artist® | A | B | C | D | E | |
Unlimited Software Version | FREE | Free | Free | Free | $1,200 | $7,000 |
Gerber Format Files FREE 1 | No | No | No | |||
Integrated Schematics/PCB2 | | No | No | No | No | No |
Symbol/Footprint/Part Creation wizard | | No | No | No | No | No |
Components/BOM/Positions CSV Export | | No | No | No | No | No |
Design Rule Check & Report | | No | No | No | No | No |
Component Autoplace | | No | No | No | No | Yes |
Context Sensitive Help Files (F1 key) | | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
Individual Colored Nets Options | | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
Ratsnest Connections Optimization | | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
Design Status Reports | | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Moved Component Tracks Stay Connected | | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Powerplanes/Copper Pours | | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Modify Nets Commands/Reports | | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes |
Integrity Check & Cross Probe | | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes |
Controlled AutoRoute | | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Adjustable Design Rule Check/Navigation | | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Library Manager | | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
MacSpice simulates and analyses electronic circuits that can range in complexity from a single resistor to an integrated circuit comprising tens-of-thousands of devices. It has users who range in experience from novices to retired integrated circuit designers. It is used at various universities internationally for research and teaching.
MacSpice runs on Intel architecture Apple Macintosh computers. It is compatible with, Berkeley Spice 3f5 but incorporates many improvements to Spice 3f5 – from simple bug-fixes to entirely new commands, algorithms and solution strategies. For example: the memory leaks that affected Spice 3f5 have been cured; new algorithms have been developed to facilitate the simulation of large circuits, and to reduce simulation time; MacSpice provides a robust multi-parameter optimizer and facilities for inter-process communication with other applications.
Circuit simulation is a way of building and testing virtual models of electronic devices. It is usually cheaper and quicker to simulate a design than to build a prototype. MacSpice requires a text-file description of the circuit as input. This 'netlist' is a list of components and the nodes they connect to. Users may prepare netlists with a text editor, or derive them from a circuit diagram using a third-party schematic-capture application. MacSpice then builds a numerical model of the circuit and analyses this.
A command interpreter (shell) is used to specify the types of analyses that are required and how the results should be processed, saved or displayed. The high quality of the MacSpice command interpreter makes the automation of tasks straightforward.
Simulation is a tool, not a magic-wand. The quality of the results depends on the accuracy of the netlist and the device models used. Within Spice most devices are ideal – its resistor, for example, has just one property: resistance. A real resistor has parasitic inductance and capacitance; if these have a significant influence on the circuit, they must be added explicitly to the netlist.
MacSpice helps the user by providing error messages, warnings and explanatory notes. Users will, however, need to supplement these with following reference and training and information:
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