Java circuit simulator
BrentBXR tipped us of about this cool and educational tool. It’s an interactive electronics circuit simulator. It has some pretty cool features, like having the direction of the current animated on the circuit traces, or highlighting the high signal traces in digital circuits.
There is a bunch of circuit examples ranging from Ohm’s law demonstrations to a 4bit Delta-Sigma ADCs. We highly recommend that you check it out, it is a very useful tool for figuring out those pesky circuits you never seemed to fully understand. There is a video of this applet in action below.
Via the forum.
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this tool was a huge aid to pass my digital electronic test at uni! great software!
Same here. This software taught me most major concepts of electronics. Incredibly useful, and doesn’T even need to be installed!
One downside: single-threaded, so it gets slow once you start adding loads of opamps or simulate multiple SMPS at once.
We use this on our hackerspace wiki and in classes to teach the basics. Building a small online electronics course with it now.
eg http://wiki.032.la/nsl/NSL_Cylon_II
I’ve used it to teach a basic “electronics without math” course in our makerspace – about the only math we do is ohm’s law – but being able to sit there and tweak resistor values and see what happens is really useful at getting that feeling of how stuff behaves
Our goal is to teach people how to look at schematics and ‘see’ what’s happening, where the signal flows are – being able to say things like “that’s a decoupling cap, I’ll ignore it, those set bias, I’ll ignore them, ….” and being able to get to the core of what’s going on in a circuit