List of free electronics circuit simulators
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List of free analog and digital electronic circuit simulators, available for Windows, macOS, Linux, and comparing against UC Berkeley SPICE.
Some of the following simulators don't include a graphical visual interface, so a separate program must be chosen to provide that feature, such as Qucs-S,[1] Oregano,[2] or a PCB suite that supports external simulators, such as KiCad or gEDA.
Simulator name | Business / Developer | Latest release year |
Currently developed? |
Source Code? |
O/S platforms | Analog? | Digital? | Digital languages? |
Visual editor? |
Notes |
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Gnucap[3] | n/a | 2021 | ![]() |
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Spice, Verilog, Spectre netlists. Plugins. |
KTechLab[4] | n/a | 2020 | ![]() |
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Simulates a PIC microcontroller |
Logisim-evolution[5][6] | Multiple Universities and community developers | 2022 | ![]() |
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Fork of Logisim (which development ended in 2011)[7] |
LTspice | Analog Devices | 2023 | ![]() |
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Windows, macOS, POL | ![]() |
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Very popular, updated often[8] |
Micro-Cap | Spectrum Software | 2020 | ![]() |
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Previously was commercial software |
Ngspice | n/a | 2023 | ![]() |
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Windows, macOS, Linux | ![]() |
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Altium Designer / Eagle / KiCad includes Ngspice.[9] |
Qucs | n/a | 2017 | ![]() |
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Windows, macOS, Linux | ![]() |
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VHDL, Verilog | ![]() |
Qt GUI. Uses own SPICE-incompatible simulator Qucsator for analog. |
Qucs-S[1] | n/a | 2023 | ![]() |
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Windows, macOS, Linux | ![]() |
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VHDL, Verilog | ![]() |
Qucs SPICE-compatible fork using Ngspice, XYCE, SpiceOpus, or Qucsator for analog. |
SapWin | University of Florence | 2019 | ![]() |
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Windows | ![]() |
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SPICE[10] | UC Berkeley | 1993 | ![]() |
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Many analog simulators are based on this project |
TINA–TI[11] | DesignSoft & TI | 2018 | ![]() |
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Windows, Wine | ![]() |
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Special version of TINA licensed to TI |
PSPICE-FOR-TI[12] | Cadence & TI | 2019 | ![]() |
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Windows | ![]() |
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Special version of PSpice licensed to TI[13] |
Xyce[14] | Sandia National Laboratories | 2022 | ![]() |
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Supports parallel simulation on Linux and macOS, and capable of solving extremely large circuits |
See also
- List of HDL simulators for VHDL, Verilog, SystemVerilog, ...
- Espresso heuristic logic minimizer, such as Logic Friday
- Comparison of EDA software
- List of instruction set simulators
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Qucs-S.
- ↑ Oregano v0.84.43 Release.
- ↑ http://gnucap.org
- ↑ KTechLab v0.50.0 Release.
- ↑ Logisim-evolution; Swiss Universities.
- ↑ Logisim-evolution (Holy Cross Edition); College of the Holy Cross.
- ↑ Logisim; Dr. Carl Burch.
- ↑ "LTspice - Change Log". Archived from the original on April 19, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210419153707/https://ltspice.linear.com/fieldsyncXVII/Changelog.txt.gz.
- ↑ Tools that use ngspice as simulator; Ngspice.
- ↑ SPICE 3f.5 Release; UC Berkeley.
- ↑ TINA-TI; Texas Instruments.
- ↑ PSPICE-FOR-TI; Texas Instruments.
- ↑ Getting started with the new PSpice for TI design and simulation tool; Texas Instruments.
- ↑ "Sandia National Laboratories: Xyce Parallel Electronic Simulator (Xyce)". https://xyce.sandia.gov/.
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