Friday, January 23, 2015

Find of the Day : QUCS (Does Veriloga)

One of the factors contributing to my speed of execution in past jobs was usage of veriloga to make difficult things easy.

If you want to get better, you have to practise. How? When you don't have access to spectre, or hspice?

Here's one option (not tested) : http://qucs.sourceforge.net/index.html

Found on : https://mixedsignal.wordpress.com/2011/02/04/top-ten-circuit-simulators/

In case you plan to install :

The download files alone, for qucs and octave are 127 MB and 68 MB. What giveth? Guess you have to pay for great work. And you really have to hand it to the Qucs guys when you look at their page - compared to gEDA, they're 100x better. What gives? Are Europeans really sick of Cadence and Altium raking in the money? Or is it just the socialistic/democratic/fraternistic streak?

And they've actually taken the trouble to create a Win32 (okay, why not 64b also?) binary executable. Why can't gEDA do that much?

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