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Electronics => Projects, Designs, and Technical Stuff => Topic started by: Cujo on September 23, 2019, 02:09:35 am

Title: ICircuit
Post by: Cujo on September 23, 2019, 02:09:35 am

Do you think ICircuit is any good? https://www.microsoft.com/en-au/p/icircuit/9wzdncrdc280?rtc=1&activetab=pivot:overviewtab (https://www.microsoft.com/en-au/p/icircuit/9wzdncrdc280?rtc=1&activetab=pivot:overviewtab)

Title: Re: ICircuit
Post by: amspire on September 23, 2019, 02:52:51 am

It is worth a try for demo use, and it doesn't look like a bad way to learn about resistors, capacitors and inductors. The device library looks very limited and simplified, and I couldn't see any obvious way to add components. For the price, it is not a bad learning program.

In the longer term, you are probably going to go further with LTSpice (https://www.analog.com/en/design-center/design-tools-and-calculators/ltspice-simulator.html (https://www.analog.com/en/design-center/design-tools-and-calculators/ltspice-simulator.html)) , or one of the open source Spice applications like QUCS (https://ra3xdh.github.io (https://ra3xdh.github.io)).

SPICE is the component simulation method developed back in the 1960's and it has basically been the standard since.