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Re:A Summary of Electronics by mbrodersen on Sunday September 12, 2021 @11:06PM (#28507448)
I have a CS background and are interested in learning more about electronics. Is there a good beginners tool I can use to accurately simulate electronic diagrams and learn from?
Re:A Summary of Electronics by rramadass on Monday September 13, 2021 @12:39AM (#28507908)
Digilent (now part of National Instruments) has some good HW and SW (with accompanying tutorials) for students.

* HW - Analog Discovery 2 or Analog Discovery Studio - https://digilent.com/shop/test-and-measurement-equipment/usb...

* SW - Multisim - https://digilent.com/shop/ni-multisim-student-edition-circui...

* Tutorials - https://learn.digilentinc.com/

Re:A Summary of Electronics by mbrodersen on Monday September 13, 2021 @11:33PM (#28519921)
Thanks. Much appreciated.
Re:A Summary of Electronics by rramadass on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @12:40AM (#28520303)
The Analog Discovery 2 + Digital Discovery from Digilent will give you everything. They are small, easy to carry and the Waveforms software interface is pretty good.

You might also want to take a look at;

* RedPitaya STEMLab - https://redpitaya.com/

* Saleae - https://www.saleae.com/

Re:A Summary of Electronics by runnerup on Monday September 13, 2021 @02:26PM (#28514920)
This tool helped me a lot over the past decade, and I still jump to it for simple circuit simulation at work (I do embedded firmware development, but lots and lots of oscilloscope/multimeter/logic analyzer use to troubleshoot and validate)

https://www.falstad.com/circuit/

This tool is fast enough to whip things up during a troubleshooting session alongside Electrical Engineers, and thorough "enough" to be used as a reasonable reference by the Electrical Engineers.

Re:A Summary of Electronics by mbrodersen on Monday September 13, 2021 @11:32PM (#28519918)
Thanks! I will check it out.