Report on Design and Simulation for Analog and Digital circuits


Foreword

There are far more freely available resources available for Unix/Linux than for other OS's. This is because of several factors: Most universities use this platform and there is a large pool of authors writing for the FSF/GNU world.
 

 Links to free EDA software
 

Reviewed Software

Digital Design and Sim Software:

 The armory.com Anonymous FTP Archives PAL/GAL stuff

siglab SigLab - a graphical signal calculator Requires Siglab
    Developed at INRIA, Scilab has been developed for system control and signal processing applications. It is freely distributed in source code format (see the file notice.tex).
 

 Electric Editor, Incorporated
The Electric VLSI Design System is a complete Electronic Design Automation (EDA) system that has a long history. Electric
can handle many forms of circuit design, including:
                              Custom IC layout
                              Schematic Capture (digital and analog)
                              Textual Languages such as VHDL and Verilog
                              Electro-mechanical hybrid layout
                              Programmable logic (FPGAs)
                              ...and much more.

 The Chipmunk Distribution A university package

only portions are available for Win platform but there is a port to MSDOS
 CynApps A C/C++ based HDL
 

Language Resources

Models


 FMF Home Page Welcome to The Free Model Foundry

 Library of Parameterized Modules From EDIF.org Known as LPM

 LPM Verilog Models
 CMOSexod.com your source of free Verilog/VHDL IPs. Great Lattice compatable source!
Authored by jlee@cmosexod.com
Examples: Auto-Ranging Frequency counter , PopCorn-1 (A small, yet powerful 8 bit CISC processor).

Analog Design and Sim Software:

 VIPEC (Windows bin available)
What is ViPEC?

     "ViPEC is a powerful tool for the analysis of high frequency, linear electrical networks. It takes a text based description of the electrical network and an analysis is performed in the  frequency domain. The output is in the form of 2-port parameters (S, Y or Z) with results  presented on a user defined grid and Smithchart. It can also be used to compute the input and output impedance/admittance as well as amplifier stability factors (Linvill & Stern).

     ViPEC supports various lumped elements (capacitors, resistors etc.) as well as distributed  networks like transmission lines, microstrip and stripline structures. Two port data files are also supported e.g. the 2-port frequency parameters of various RF transistors as supplied by the manufacturer. The component library is under constant development with new elements added at regular intervals."
 

Tk/Tcl Recources

 tkBuilder Manual The guy(s) who host this have some nice utilities.
 
 

Actual Hardware

 The Computer Journal Home Page

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