{"id":143680,"date":"2022-08-06T04:23:45","date_gmt":"2022-08-06T09:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/30-free-circuit-simulators-lightly-reviewed"},"modified":"2022-08-06T04:23:45","modified_gmt":"2022-08-06T09:23:45","slug":"30-free-circuit-simulators-lightly-reviewed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/30-free-circuit-simulators-lightly-reviewed","title":{"rendered":"30 Free Circuit Simulators Lightly Reviewed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/30-free-circuit-simulators-lightly-reviewed.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We live in a time where great software is available with the click of a mouse, often for free or \u2014 at least \u2014 low cost. But there\u2019s a problem: how do you select from so many alternatives? We were interested in [Lee Teschler]\u2019s review earlier this year of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designworldonline.com\/best-free-analog-circuit-simulators\/\" target=\"_blank\">30 free circuit simulators<\/a>. If you are selecting one or don\u2019t like the one you are currently using, it is well worth the time to review.<\/p>\n<p>There are several on the list that you\u2019ve probably heard of before like GNUCap and LTspice. There are also some lesser-known products. Some of those are just trial or student versions of paid products. Some are branded versions of commercial products (like Tina) or were made free after selling for higher price tags (like <a href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2020\/01\/08\/commercial-circuit-simulator-goes-free\/\">MicroCap 12<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Old favorites like Falstad (which is apparently known as Circuit Sims) and TinkerCAD made the list. Many of the trial versions were very limited. For example, DCAClab only provides an NPN bipolar transistor model. Proteus doesn\u2019t let you save or print unless you pay. While the list includes TI\u2019s Tina, it doesn\u2019t seem to mention that TI also provides a <a href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2020\/09\/20\/ti-and-cadence-make-pspice-free\/\">free version of PSpice<\/a> which is a very popular professional product.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We live in a time where great software is available with the click of a mouse, often for free or \u2014 at least \u2014 low cost. But there\u2019s a problem: how do you select from so many alternatives? We were interested in [Lee Teschler]\u2019s review earlier this year of 30 free circuit simulators. If you [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}