

- #CIRCUIT MAKER SOFTWARE SOFTWARE#
- #CIRCUIT MAKER SOFTWARE SIMULATOR#
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It is developed on 64-bit SuSE 9.3 and other users report success on Redhat Linux, HPUX, Solaris, and Windows NT under Cygwin (C++ only, no SystemC), and Microsoft Visual C++" And, I believe, OSX. " Verilator should run any system with GCC and Perl. You can even make a DLL out of the model + behavior circuitry and call it with a GUI, scripting language, or whatever. Using the C++ model of the digital circuit that is output by the Verilator, you can model the external circuitry in C or C++. If you have the need for speed, this tool will outperform the even the most expensive commercial simulator.
#CIRCUIT MAKER SOFTWARE SIMULATOR#
It's a bit slow for large projects that require long time simulations, but totally adequate for many projects.Īnother free simulator that I've got a lot of mileage with is the Verilator (Perl program), with turns synthesizeable Verilog into C++. Icarus Verilog is a very complete and stable free Verilog simulator. GTKWave is a top quality waveform viewer, and can compete in useability and features with the best commercial tools. I use LTSpice for analog simulation and Icarus Verilog coupled with GTKWave for digital simulation. We would love to know why you chose what you've used, what you like about them, or why you moved to something else. Please let us know in the comments if you've used any of these, or if we missed any. We just want to make sure we don't miss any important ones. Many of you might be curious about what some of these tools are and do, but you'll just have to be patient. There are three main categories: analog, digital, and mixed signal. Since there are so many, we intend to break them up by signal type. This can be a program to be downloaded, an app, or a web-based tool. Right now, we're only asking about circuit simulation.
#CIRCUIT MAKER SOFTWARE SOFTWARE#
Free CAD and PCB design software would be fun, but we'll have to save that for the next round. To clarify, we aren't looking at any other kind of free software right now. Help us collect a list, so that we can document and compare them to help you find out if there is free software that would be a a good fit for your job. Even worse, maybe there are ones we haven't even heard of yet. There are so many packages out there that we don't know which ones are the best fit. However, many of us don't know where to start. Of course, that doesn't mean we're not going to use simulation software at all. For personal projects, most of us simply can't afford the fancy circuit simulation software packages we may access at work.
