software for circuits

Feb 02, 2005 4 Replies

Hi teranews,

I have used Circuit Maker the student version ('cause I'm a student) I find it useful and it works good. You can download it from their site:

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Greetings

Are there any free/shareware or inexpensive (under $100) sofware packages that let you design circuits and analyze various values (V,I,R for instance) at points in the circuit? I'm trying to learn and something like this would be invaluable to understanding.



thanks


packages

for instance)

like this would

"LTSpice" from Linear.com is free!

SuperSpice

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Kevin Aylward snipped-for-privacy@anasoft.co.uk

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SuperSpice, a very affordable Mixed-Mode Windows Simulator with Schematic Capture, Waveform Display, FFT's and Filter Design.

See my notes and links to some 60 ECAD programs at

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Quite a few of those have the sort of analysis facilities you want. (They are all based on a standard program called Spice.)

I personally use CircuitMaker Pro, but that is above your price range.

An excellent free program, highly recommended in these groups, and with easily-accessed support here and in online forums, look at LT SWCAD III (SwitcherCAD III). It can be downloaded from

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Terry Pinnell Hobbyist, West Sussex, UK

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