General information on
electronics design software
- EDA
open systems: "Open" is not a magic word -
Design data, not just EDA algorithms, are the key to
successfully implementing large systems. A design-centric
methodology can free you from vendor-specific tools and
allow you to efficiently use the best tools in their
class.
- 101
Science Software Links - links to simple programs for
different electronics calculation tasks
- Calculators
On-Line Center - calculation programs for many
applications
- Educational
Resources for Electronics Technology - Educational
software for learning electronics basics. Trial software
can be downloaded.
- EE-designer
software archive
- Electronic.host.sh
Download - electronics design software and related
documents
- Electronics
CAD software archive at nic.funet.fi - shareware and
freeware programs, PADS demo
- Electronic
Design Software - Pspice, PADS, autocad PCB
extensions, and other software
- ESP
Audio Pages Download Page - audio design software to
download
- Links
of related free EDA software
- Programs
in Circuits Archive - Pspice, filter design, VHDL
simulator, Aplac, circuit database
- PSPICE
power electronics - Information
Pspice,tutorials,library components,download,cursos,power
electronics papers,ups,ballast electronics,PWM,power
factor correction,switching power supply,datasheets,links.
- SCH
y PCB - Tango pcb and Tango Schematics for DOS
- Universal
Teacher - This web site is primarily dedicated to
educational softwares. The eBooks, tutorials, and
softwares offered on this site are selective, educative,
and entertaining.
- Wayne's
World Program Archives - audio software, electronics
design software, circuit analysis, tutorial, repair info
- Channel
1 Filelibrary graphics programs - selection of
different graphics programs
- Dia
- gtk+ based diagram creation program released under the
GPL license, basically like Windows program 'Visio' but
works in Linux and UNIX systems
- Dia
for Win32 - Windows version of Dia
diagram creation program, get also Dia
Windows installer
- GIMP
- GNU Image Manipulation Program is a freely distributed
piece of software suitable for such tasks as photo
retouching, image composition and image authoring
- GNU
Yellow Vector Editor (GYVE) - GYVE is a vector-based
drawing program in the spirit of Adobe Illustrator and
Corel Draw.
- ImageMagick
- ImageMagickTM 5.5.7 is a robust collection of tools and
libraries offered under a usage license to read, write,
and manipulate an image in many image formats (over 89
major formats) including popular formats like TIFF, JPEG,
PNG, PDF, PhotoCD, and GIF. With ImageMagick you can
create images dynamically, making it suitable for Web
applications. You can also resize, rotate, sharpen, color
reduce, or add special effects to an image or image
sequence and save your completed work in the same or
differing image format. Image processing operations are
available from the command line, or from the C, C++, Perl,
Java, PHP, Python, or Ruby programming languages. A
high-quality 2D renderer is included, which provides a
subset of SVG capabilities. ImageMagick's focus is on
performance, minimizing bugs, and providing stable APIs
and ABIs.
- Sketch
- a vector drawing program for Unix
- SmartDraw
- Windows shareware program for drawing flowcharts,
technical drawings, web graphics, maps, and business
presentations, free version available to download
- TimingTool
- TimingTool is a free to use timing diagram editor that
is built around the Si2 TDML standard. VHDL or Verilog can
be automatically generated from saved TDML.
- WinPlace
- freeware 2D and 3D modeling tool for Windows
- Wiring
Diagram 2000 - very small Windows 3.1 application for
making wiring diagrams
- WiringX
- With this software you can create simple wiring layouts
with the most common discreet electronic components and
print them, which looks better then to draw them by hand.
The software is designed for Win95/Win98/winME
- Xfig
- Quite old vector drawing program for X11
Commercial general
drawing tools
- Smartdraw
- Smartdraw is a commercial drawing and visualizing tool
with large clipart set suitable for enginnering work.
There is 30 day evaluation version available.
- Visio
- Visio is a commercial drawing program to help to
visualize and communicate ideas, information, and systems.
Now part of Microsoft Office 2002.
- AMS
CircuitCREATOR - Electronics CAE System
- Bartels
AutoEngineer Demo Software - printed circuit design
software
- Cadaes
- a PCB package for AutoCAD
- CadSoft
EAGLE - free version 3.5 Light Edition version
available for downloading, also available at http://www.cadsoft.de/
- Cadstar
- Commercial PCB design software. Free Evaluation Version
available for download.
- CIRCAD
- Schematics, netlists, circuit boards, and gerber plots,
free DOS evaluation version available, also Windows
version available
- Easytrax
- DOS based PCB cad, test version available, this is
slightly crippled - for instance users can't edit the hole
sizes
- EDWin
- commercial quite inexpensive PCB CAD, free demo
available
- EDWin
XP/2000 Professional - The complete set of commercial
tools for designing and making Printed Circuit Boards:
Schematic Capture, Placers, Routers, Simulation, Layout,
Placers, Routers, Thermal, EMC, Signal Integrity,
Libraries, Fabrication Managers. Free demo version
available.
- ExpressPCB
- Free PCB layout editor for Win95 & low cost PC board
manufacture
- EZRoute2000
for Windows95/98/2000/ME/NT/XP - Printed circuit
layout software for beginners and experienced users. Easy
to use printed circuit layout software.
- Ivex
Software - WinBoard/IvexPCB, GerbTool, WinDraft -
shareware versions available for downloading
- LochMaster
- LochMaster is a developers tool for strip board (VERO)
projects for designing, documenting and testing a board.
This is a commercial program. A free demo version is
available.
- Orcad
- Pads
- PADS
PowerPREVIEW-miniversio
- PC
Logic - PC Logic's Software for Schematic Capture and
Printed Circuit Layout programs provide the small business
or electronic enthusiast with the ability to easily
produce professional quality single or double sided
printed circuit boards. Works on Windows 3.1, Windows 95,
Windows 98, or WinNt 4.0.
- Protel
Autotrax DOS Freeware - Complete PCB layout package
with output support for printers, pen plotters and Gerber.
- Protel
EasyTrax DOS Freeware - Complete PCB layout package
with output support for printers, pen plotters and Gerber.
- Protel
- Protel Route 3 and Advanced PCB demo versions, Easytrax
(DOS) freeware and DOS utilities
- Proteus
- schematic capture, simulation and PCB layout editor,
free Lite version available
- PCB
- a UNIX freeware program for generating printed circuit
board layouts
- PCB
Editor - shareware tool by Waldherr
Software Engineering
- TARGET
3001 - PCB Layout CAD Software that contains
schematic, simulation, pcb-layout, autoplacer, autorouter,
emc analysis, a full working discover version for free!
- VUTRAX
- 256 pin limited FREE system downloadable
- WinCircuit
2002 - shareware program for drawing of a printed
circuit in simple or double-sided in manual or automatic
routing
- Adobe
Acrobat Reader Software - read pdf files
- Autodesk
Volo View Express - free viewer for DWG, DWF and DXF
files
- FormView
- freeware program that Reads, Views, Searches and Prints
Hewlett Packard Printer Control Language (PCLฎ) print
files
- Gerber
Viewer - Gerber Viewer is a viewer for Gerber files,
also called RS274X. The Gerber Viewer has a batch feature,
which is based on Guile Scheme; you can write small Scheme
scripts to generate other file formats, do design rule
check, etc.
- Ghostscript,
Ghostview and GSview - free tools for handling
postscript files
- GC-PREVUE
- DOS CAD/CAM software designed to help you work with
RS-274 (often called "Gerber") photoplotter and
NC drill CAD output data, also supports HPGL and Quest (Marconi
Emma) plotter formats
- Hex
workshop - The professional hex editor
- IrfanView
- very fast FREEWARE (for non-commercial use) 32-Bit
graphic viewer for Windoze 9x, Windows NT and Windows
2000, supports very many graphics formats and also
commonly used some video and audio formats
- OneVIEW
from Unisoft - royalty free software tool that
actively displays PCB assemblies from virtually any CAD
data source
- Router
Solutions - company which makes viewers and
converters, free Gerber viewer downloadable
- SPLOT
- tool intended for simulating the HP-GL/2, HP-GL or DXY-GL
plotters on the display of your PC
- SwiftView
- viewer for PCL and HPGL, free evaluation version
available
- ViewMate
- free Gerber viewer for Windows from Lavenir,
can display multiple layers transparently
- WEBPlotter
- HP-GL/2 and HP-GL plugin
- xpdf:
a PDF viewer for X
- 555
Oscillator Designer
- 555
Timer Design Tool
- AIM-Spice
- a new Windows version of SPICE, free student version
available
- AKNM
Circuit magic - Software to show user circuit
calculation by Kirchhoff's laws, Node Voltage and Mesh
Current methods.
- AnaSoft
Spice Analog Simulation with Schematic Capture - for
Windows 95/98/NT, free beta version available
- Aplac
- electronics circuit simulation program, free demo
version available, uses Spice component models, very
suitable for RF simulation
- atlc
- Arbitrary Transmission Line Calculator (for electrical
transmission lines) - atlc is a computer aided design
(CAD) package for the design and analysis of electrical
transmission lines and directional couplers of totally
arbitrary cross section. 'atlc' can handle any cross
section and any number of different dielectrics. It's also
possible to analyse 3 conductor lines (directional
couplers). The software is free, open-source and for Unix
or GNU/Linux machines. It is not really interended for
Windoze machines.
- Bode
Diagrams - Windows application for Bode's diagrams
drawing and analysis. It allows to trace and to print the
Bode diagrams, both asymptotic and true, and the analysis
(zeros, poles, stabilization to open and closed ring,
reaction, regulation, project and verification of control
systems). The departure function can be expressed in
whichever format, also mixed.
- CAD-Migos
Software Tools - SPICE-IT! for Windows, WYSIWYG
schematic editor and mixed-mode Spice-compatible
simulation system, free demo available
- Circuit
Magic - Symbolic circuits analysis software to
simulate AC/DC circuits using Kirchhoffs laws, Node
Voltage and Mesh currents. Circuit Magic allows you to
design, simulate and learn about electrical circuits. This
is commercial software with limited free demo available.
- Dolphin
Integration SMASH - Mixed-signal analog and logic
simulation software
- DSP
Design Performance - site which contains a set of Java
applets which may be freely used to design digital filters
of many types, including high-Q notch filters,
fractional-sample time delay filters and comb filters, in
addition to the more traditional low-pass, high-pass,
band-pass and band-stop filters, differentiators and
Hilbert transformers
- eCircuit
Center - A free source of SPICE circuit files and
tutorials for the hands-on learning of electronic
circuits. Circuits you can design, test and modify using
the SPICE simulator: Opamps, filters, sensors, PID
controllers, etc.
- eSketch
circuit simulation software - new linear simulator
with schematic capture - free 30 day trial
- Filter
Wiz - Active filter design package, free demo version
downloadable
- ICAP/4
- Analog & Mixed Signal Simulation Software, free
Windows demo version available
- Intusoft
Magnetics Designer Transformer, Inductor and Choke Design
Software - free demo available
- LTspice/SwitcherCAD
III - LTC SwitcherCAD. III is a fully functional Spice
III simulator with enhancements and models for easing the
simulation of switching regulators. This Spice is a high
performance circuit simulator, integrated waveform viewer,
which also includes schematic capture. Small, easy to
learn, GUI version of Spice. Works perfectly on Wine
emulator under Linux as well!
- OpFil
passive filter designer - resistor values and
pole-zero locations are masked in the unregistered version
- Orcad
DesignLab Evaluation Download
- TuneKit
for Windows - design tuned LC circuits and coils
- Mentor
Graphics - company which makes a wide selection of
electronics design software
- Micro-Cap
- electronics circuit simulation, free demo version
available
- Oulun
Yliopisto Elektroniikan Laboratio - free software for
electronics design: VHDL filter design, pole-zero demo,
MOS calculator
- PC-ECAP
- AC circuit analysis program which analyzes circuits
consisting of resistors, capacitors, inductors,
transformers, transistors (both bipolar and FET's),
operational amplifiers and transconductance amplifiers.
(Shareware 1990, registration requested)
- Programs
in Circuits Archive - Pspice
- PSpice
and Related CAD Packages FAQ
- PSU
Designer II - designed to help you with the design of
simple linear (unregulated) mains power supplies, as often
found in tube amplifiers
- SpiceCreator
- a popular 32-bit analog, digital, mixed signal circuit
design and simulation program, free demo version available
- The
Iowa Logic Specification Language - logic description
language and simulator developed between 1983 and 1988
- VisualSpice
- Electronic Circuit Design and Simulation Software from
Island Logix Products, demo available
- Webench
- on-line tools for PLL simulation, power electronics
design and thermanl design
- Westbay
Compufilt 2 - Line Interference Analysis. EMI
Suppression Filter Modelling. Feedthrough Filter Modelling.
- MiscEl
- program to handle many different simple electronic
calculations. This includes: ohms law, dB, charge curves,
Wires, Fan cooling, PCB, color codes, thermo sensors, leds
circuit, Fo, Serial/Paralle of R/C/L, and some more. The
program is free to download and use, but the program is
timelocked. A new version will have to be downloaded after
about 1/2 year.
- Compact
74xxx databook - pinlayout, the connectionlayout, an
functiontable and the most important specifications
available for most important 7400 series ICs
- PartMiner
- FREE Software for Windows 95, 98, NT to search the
internet for electronic components
- Semiconductor
Cross Reference Library - program that will search
through it's database (47,000 devices on this demo
version) and it will give you a short description of the
component
- ETCAI
Products Educational Resources for Electronics Technology
- information on educational software for teaching
electricity and electronics
- GlassWare
- tube audio design software
- HAM
Intelligent Calculator (HAMIC) - a program designed to
simplify a number of calculations commonly used by HAMs,
it is designed for the HAM radio hobbyist, but may be
useful to others as well
- LabVIEW
- commercial tool to implement computerized measuring
systems
- Mathtools.net
- Mathtools.net is the technical computing portal for all
scientific and engineering needs. The portal is provided
as a free service to the scientific community and contains
useful links for technical computing programmers.
- Resistor
Selector - program finds resistor values for simple
resistor circuits from given initial conditions, can find
suitable resistors in E6, E12, E24, E48 and E96 standard
values
- Schematic
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