Software:KTechLab

KTechLab

KTechLab V0.3.7 running on Linux
Original author(s)	David Saxton
Stable release	0.50.0 / September 20, 2020 (2020-09-20)
Written in	C++
Operating system	Linux
Platform	KDE
Type	Electronic design automation
License	GNU General Public License

KTechLab is an IDE for electronic and PIC microcontroller circuit design and simulation; it is a circuit designer with auto-routing and a simulator of common electronic components and logic elements.

KTechLab supports programming microcontrollers using a graphical flowchart based language called flowcode.

KTechLab is free and open-source software licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL.

History

KTechLab was first developed by David Saxton, who worked on it until 2007. The design ideas and a lot of the current code have been developed by him. He released various versions, up to version 0.3.6.

When David Saxton stated that he would not be able to continue developing the software, KTechLab stalled for a while before others continued his work, releasing version 0.3.7, with more components and bug fixes.

In January 2019, KTechLab was ported to Qt and KDELibs4. The new priority changed to port KTechLab to Qt5 and KF5, accomplished by version 0.50.0.

See also

• Comparison of EDA software
• List of free electronics circuit simulators

External links

Note that, at 2021-06-22, the KDE git repository (https://invent.kde.org/sdk/ktechlab.git, 2 weeks ago, and containing GitHub's latest commit e0bb9ff) is more recent that the GitHub git repository (https://github.com/ktechlab/ktechlab.git, 6 months ago).

• KTechLab on KDE Community Wiki
• on GitHub
• KTechlab users guide