Electronics simulation software

Gavin Harper · 08-26-2010, 12:01 AM

I am looking for suitable Electronics simulation software for Slackware (PCB Design/Testing).

Is anyone familiar with any that work well without playing dependency tag in Slackware? Ideally software already in a Slackbuild would be great but I have zero hangups making my own if required.

I would ideally like to design my circuits and then run them and receive a simulated output.

Thank you very much

ChrisAbela · 08-26-2010, 02:32 AM

Although I am an electronics engineer, I am not doing any designs any more. Anyway searching "electronics" in http://slackbuilds.org gave me geda-gaf. Dependencies on Slackware are not much of a problem if you have a default installation. Just read the README included in the SlackBuild. It is however true that Gnome applications can drive you up the wall, but there are ways how to go about that as well.

If you are interested in high level simulations, perhaps involving FFT, then octave is a must-have.

Chris

guanx · 08-26-2010, 07:33 AM

Allegro SPB if your are rich.
If you only layout (don't simulate), eagle is good enough in many cases.

brodo · 08-26-2010, 10:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gavin Harper

I am looking for suitable Electronics simulation software for Slackware (PCB Design/Testing).

Is anyone familiar with any that work well without playing dependency tag in Slackware? Ideally software already in a Slackbuild would be great but I have zero hangups making my own if required.

I would ideally like to design my circuits and then run them and receive a simulated output.

Thank you very much

Circuitmaker 2000 (discontinued) works nice using latest Wine edition, Tina 8.0 works that way too.

XGizzmo · 08-26-2010, 12:44 PM

ngspice may also do what you want http://slackbuilds.org/repository/13...demic/ngspice/ this build is for 13.0 but should not be hard to update and get working on 13.1.
Also there is http://slackbuilds.org/repository/13...emic/xcircuit/.

Luiz Ramos · 08-26-2010, 04:13 PM

The first package I'd remember is gEDA, which is a GPL suite of EDA programs.

The problem: it seems there is no compiled version for Slackware. There is a Slackbuild in slackbuilds.org, and it seems there is no dependencies:

http://slackbuilds.org/repository/13...emic/geda-gaf/

However, as I am not a frequent user of such programs, I have to admit I'm not the best guy to give opinions about features, how they behave, bugs, etc.

Luiz Ramos

davidsrsb · 08-26-2010, 05:03 PM

I use Simetrix for simulation. It has a Linux version. It is a fully functional, but size limited.

ivandi · 08-26-2010, 07:37 PM

QUCS
KiCAD
NgSpice
GHDL
GtkWave
TkGate

ChrisAbela · 08-27-2010, 03:03 AM

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ngspice may also do what you want

I am really surprised spice is still around. It must have been around 1988 since I first used it. It's almost as old as vi.

plasmonics · 08-27-2010, 06:01 AM

The slackbuild for ngspice also works on 13.1 without any change.

teckk · 08-27-2010, 03:14 PM

We've been using Qucs.

http://qucs.sourceforge.net/
http://qucs.sourceforge.net/screenshots.html

You may also as one said look into
Octave
genius
matlab
mulab
scilab

Gavin Harper · 08-27-2010, 10:01 PM

Brilliant guys, thank you!

nickboarder27 · 08-28-2010, 12:44 AM

My 2 Cents:

Eagle and B2Spice.

Both have fully functional non-profit versions that integrate famously. Total cost $275.

Transients, AC/DC and 6 layer boards (size limited), plus 1-stop schematic capture.

Its not PADS but it doesn't cost $10K either.

Sorry no slackbuilds

Ahmed · 08-28-2010, 02:12 AM

Actually there is a slackbuild for eagle, but for older Slackware versions: http://slackbuilds.org/result/?search=eagle&sv=

Just yesterday I successfully installed eagle 5.10.0 on Slackware-current by using that.

-A