On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 09:44:50AM -0800, Howard W. Ashcraft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> appears to have written:
> I am looking for software (preferably Linux, open source) to model > electronic circuitry. My primary interest is educational. I want to use > the software to design and investigate circuits to better understand how > they work. I may do a little design, as well. Does anyone have > suggestions? Probably your most accessible open source/linux code will be SPICE3. You might be able to find an RPM or "apt-get"-able binary somewhere, or you can pull the sources down from Berserkely. http://infopad.eecs.berkeley.edu/~icdesign/SPICE/ ftp://ic.eecs.berkeley.edu/pub/Spice3/ On FreeBSD you can get this going just by "cd /usr/ports/cad/spice; make install", but that probably won't help you. For schematic capture you might want to look at gEDA (gschem, gnetlist and other tools): http://www.geda.seul.org I've used gschem and gnetlist a little. They're not as easy to use as some of the commercial tools, but you can do quite a lot with them. There's another circuit simulator out there for linux and other platforms, but it's not yet open sourced and available only by special licensing. Hope to be able to say something different in a few months. -- Tom Russo KM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236 AHTB#1 http://www.qsl.net/~km5vy/ "Abandon the search for Truth. Settle for a good fantasy." _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
