I have been demonstrating QUCS (Quite Universal Circuit Simulator) for quite a while now and it’s a really awesome software that is easy to use and being able to create a circuit simulation in class without having to really set up bread boards, wires etc is really cool.
But several teachers have complained that it is rather difficult to install as it requires Qt (and this is NOT quicktime). The download site can be found here.
A new kid is on the block called Solve Elec.
This is a simple installation and I found it easy to use with a new GUI and does circuit analysis and resolution. Some of the main features includes:
- circuit drawing
- computation of litteral formulas in the circuit
- verification of equations related to the circuit
- graph drawing
- definition of quantities by their formula
- editing, saving and printing reports made of various components
- integrated help.
