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How Interested Are You In Learning More About Circuit Simulation?

rscasny

Over the last two years we have been approached by different vendors who have circuit simulators of introducing the element14 community to them. Another vendor recently approached us, so I thought I would get a conversation going to gauge your interest and discover what you might like to do with circuit simulators.

There are plenty of simulators on the market today. Some are well known, others are not. For those of you who may not be familiar with circuit simulators, they are software that emulates the behavior of a real hardware circuit before it is built. The circuit simulator can be used to verify a hardware design.

I'd prefer not to just say here is the simulator and here's the specs and what it can do. I'd rather have community members get the opportunity to play around with it and report to the community what they discovered. 

I know this is a big area and I expect in the future these simulators will become very sophisticated and part of every electronic engineer's toolbox. For now (and for planning purposes), I'd like some feedback on these polls.

Thank you for taking the time to vote.

Randall

-element14 Team

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  • I  would love to learn a simulator but it's not my background. I'm sure I could get a lot of good understanding from the clever e14 people who do test this simulator. 

  • in reply to mp2100

    I voted "other" because for some simulators the learning might need to be (say) "online training" or "webinar" because some are hard to use without that (and some specific types of simulators are near-impossible with no training).

    If it's a "general-purpose" type of circuit simulation (e.g. not RF or math or electromagnetic or component-specific etc), then the underlying system uses software called "SPICE", and probably the easiest one to use for beginners might be Multisim, but it's a shame it is so expensive usually, way more than it should be. If that product ever comes up for a RoadTest and you (or anyone) wishes to apply, then I'd be happy to do a 20-min training session or video recording, since it is easily possible to teach it that quickly.

    Definitely worth trying a SPICE simulator, but as mentioned some of them have more of a learning overhead. Lots of people use LTSpice, and while it is not as quick to pick up as Multisim, there should be lots of videos of that, but I've not watched any and don't know which ones to recommend : ( 

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  • in reply to mp2100

    I voted "other" because for some simulators the learning might need to be (say) "online training" or "webinar" because some are hard to use without that (and some specific types of simulators are near-impossible with no training).

    If it's a "general-purpose" type of circuit simulation (e.g. not RF or math or electromagnetic or component-specific etc), then the underlying system uses software called "SPICE", and probably the easiest one to use for beginners might be Multisim, but it's a shame it is so expensive usually, way more than it should be. If that product ever comes up for a RoadTest and you (or anyone) wishes to apply, then I'd be happy to do a 20-min training session or video recording, since it is easily possible to teach it that quickly.

    Definitely worth trying a SPICE simulator, but as mentioned some of them have more of a learning overhead. Lots of people use LTSpice, and while it is not as quick to pick up as Multisim, there should be lots of videos of that, but I've not watched any and don't know which ones to recommend : ( 

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