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Notorious b.s.d.
Jan 25, 2003

by Reene

Shinku ABOOKEN posted:

is there something like shenzhen io but for real electronics? i want virtual electronics that i can gently caress around without spending $$$$$$$ and waiting weeks upon weeks for parts.

yes, but it is hella expensive

the grand daddy of them all is cadence orcad/pspice. it's windows-only and costs a couple grand. it is, underneath the covers, derived from a 1980s version of SPICE, the original circuit simulator. it is not particularly easy to use unless you got a lot of time to learn it

there used to be a much more affordable circuit sim lacking the board layout tools and poo poo sold by national instruments, called "electronics workbench," but i can't seem to find it on their website anymore. they only have references to their professional product, multisim. this poo poo is also derived from SPICE. the el cheapo academic version was very easy to use but pretty limited in what it could do beyond simple simulation

on the open source side, you can use geda + old school 1980s open source SPICE together. this is not a real nice experience. geda is fine as a design tool to lay out schematics but it is not v. much fun for simulation. the last time i tried it nothing was integrated, so you used geda to generate netlists and then fed them to a SPICE command line tool.

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Notorious b.s.d.
Jan 25, 2003

by Reene
oh cool looks like ltspice still has a free trial: http://www.linear.com/designtools/software/

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