Hi
After getting sick of scribbling pages of math and catching on that software seems to be taking care of everything, I went looking for math software. I tried Mathematica...which just about eliminated my paper math. I might check Mathcad next.. But I want more... Anybody know if there's a math program for electronics. Preloaded with lots of constants and electronics equations. All I have to do is fill in the blanks... :)
Shortsighted. There's nothing that generates intuition faster than grinding through the algebra yourself.
Cheers,
Phil Hobbs
There are downloadable calculators that run on a PC and do that.
I know this does not sound like much but how about looking for a package for Mathematica (or Maple or Matlab, preferred by engineers everywhere)tailored to electronics. There are tons of them out there, I am sure you can find the one that suits your needs. You can even roll your own, if a few constants and simple formulas is what you need. All of these software suites already have code that deals with graphs, matrices, and transforms so you can easily customize them. A few engineers I have worked with swear by Matlab. It even has a free clone---Octave. MACSYMA is similar to Maple (but not as sleek in appearance) and is also free. All of them can be setup to import SPICE files of even call SPICE directly if that is what you need. What would you consider indispensable in a package like that?
Alex
This one is excellent:
The author posts here, and updates fairly regularly.
Dave :)
Try out Matlab. It's expensive but worth it (heck, Mathematica is expensive). Matlab has lots of goodies for engineers including generating working, compilable C code directly from your models.
I'd suggest looking for electronics related libraries for the math package you end up using.
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Careful... Mathematics software, like any other software tool, is perfectly capable of putting out utter garbage if it is fed garbage.
In other words: If you don't understand enough of the principles of mathematics to spot a potential error, then the software will only help you make the same mistakes (or bigger ones) twice as fast, and twice as easy.
Happy learning.
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