Circuit simulator and schematic capture tool

Re:Circuit simulator and schematic capture tool by fake-name on Thursday February 02, 2017 @12:21AM (#13548318)

Proteus may be nice as a "babby's first electronic" program, but as an actual EDA capture tool it's a fucking disaster (we use it at work, I wish we didn't).

If you want to make a LED blink, buy a actual arduino. If you want to simulate actual analog electronics, bite the bullet and learn SPICE. If you want to actually layout circuit boards, buy ANYTHING else.

Basically, as soon as you have an actual, complex board, the DRC system shits itself, and you wind up having to manually, visually check your layout before manufacturing, rather then letting the software that's supposed to do it do the checking.

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Re:Circuit simulator and schematic capture tool by F2 on Thursday February 02, 2017 @12:36AM (#13548370)

Shoutout to the open source KiCad EDA project.

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Re:Circuit simulator and schematic capture tool by candiodari on Thursday February 02, 2017 @10:37AM (#13551207)

Do you know another program that can emulate microcontrollers and preferably also other chips together with actual electrical components in a circuit and make them programmable and simulatable without actual real components ?

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Re:Circuit simulator and schematic capture tool by chillingeffect on Thursday February 02, 2017 @11:46AM (#13551931)

brief note: LTSpice is free and graphical. The learning curve is shorter than pure Spice.

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