What Software do you use in Circuit Design/Simulation under Linux Environment ?
Maybe it sounds strange, but I don't like Windows or MacOS. I am many years Linux/Unix user and now, learning EE, I am looking for EE open source tools.
All what I have found is spice, qucs and iverilog:
Spice is good tool for a simulation but it's difficult to design smth. new. Spice is excellent if you know what your circuit is. But you need some visual circuit design tools.
Qucs is very simple circuits visual designer/simulation programm, it has a lot of bugs, impossible to design smth. viable. As example, operation of integration (like in LC circuit) takes endless time. I'v tried to simulate a simple astable multivibrator and it just doesn't work.
Xcircuit looks very ugly - it just funny, looks like bad students 1-day work.
Iverilog I didn't tried, but I don't expect smth. greatfull.
What I need:
1)good professional circuits vector drawing tool
2)verilog/vhdl simulator, able to produce spice netlists; suited also for analog circuits netlists
3)the most precise, irrelevan how much CPU usage, circuits simulation programm (I suppose it's SPICE or is there anything else ?)
Maybe it sounds strange, but I don't like Windows or MacOS. I am many years Linux/Unix user and now, learning EE, I am looking for EE open source tools.
All what I have found is spice, qucs and iverilog:
Spice is good tool for a simulation but it's difficult to design smth. new. Spice is excellent if you know what your circuit is. But you need some visual circuit design tools.
Qucs is very simple circuits visual designer/simulation programm, it has a lot of bugs, impossible to design smth. viable. As example, operation of integration (like in LC circuit) takes endless time. I'v tried to simulate a simple astable multivibrator and it just doesn't work.
Xcircuit looks very ugly - it just funny, looks like bad students 1-day work.
Iverilog I didn't tried, but I don't expect smth. greatfull.
What I need:
1)good professional circuits vector drawing tool
2)verilog/vhdl simulator, able to produce spice netlists; suited also for analog circuits netlists
3)the most precise, irrelevan how much CPU usage, circuits simulation programm (I suppose it's SPICE or is there anything else ?)