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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 used to use PSpice all the time in teaching power and electronics.  It was fantastic.  Do the simulation.  Build the circuit.  Measure.  Explain the difference.  I also used it to build series of graphics to demonstrate concepts.  I do miss it.  Of course, I don't remember paying for PSpice in those days either.

  • in reply to kmikemoo

    A little-known fact, is that spice can also be used for chip design, i.e. custom ASICs. I'm sure there are more advanced tools (I'm not a chip designer!) but at uni, we used spice to simulate our custom chip designs (since we couldn't afford to get them made in a semiconductor factory : ). Any feature on the chip (e.g. a transistor) would just translate to the spice model for that (based on whatever chip factory settings were chosen). It's not the lowest level of simulation, nor the highest, but good enough to try out simple chips.

  • in reply to shabaz

    You can simulate almost everything using spice, you only have to translate whatever you want to simulate to an electric model. I used to simulate thermal performance of heatsinks, I know someone that used spice to simulate his Invesment and savings.

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