A circuit simulator that doesn't look like it was made in 2003

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  • qucs_s

    Qucs-S is a circuit simulation program with Qt-based GUI

  • https://ra3xdh.github.io

    It's still missing a comprehensive component library like LTspice does, though.

    KiCad can also simulate circuits through NGSpice, but it's missing a library and suffers from a lot of quirks.

  • wokwi-features

    Wokwi Feature requests & Bug Reports

  • There's a similar product at https://wokwi.com/ (with an open source core)

    It's actually really useful, fast, educational. Highly recommended.

    I also wish someone would revitalize falstad circuit sim (http://falstad.com/circuit/), which is still I think the best tool for experimentation with analog electronics. Just a little bit better interface and user friendliness and it would be amazing!

    A somewhat more robust numerical backend (that can give error guarantees) would also be nice, you kind of have to tinker with time steps in some cases.

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  • hardcaml

    Hardcaml is an OCaml library for designing hardware.

  • Perhaps peripheral (the original site has been hugged to death).

    Both clashlang: https://clash-lang.org/

    And Hardcaml: https://github.com/janestreet/hardcaml

    have personally fueled my interest in hardware.

    Dan Luu speaks eloquently and at length about how better options are needed for logic design. I would recommend both of the above to the enthusiastic novice.

  • clash-ghc

    Haskell to VHDL/Verilog/SystemVerilog compiler

  • Perhaps peripheral (the original site has been hugged to death).

    Both clashlang: https://clash-lang.org/

    And Hardcaml: https://github.com/janestreet/hardcaml

    have personally fueled my interest in hardware.

    Dan Luu speaks eloquently and at length about how better options are needed for logic design. I would recommend both of the above to the enthusiastic novice.

  • logisim-evolution

    Digital logic design tool and simulator

  • Logism evolution works great and is quite modern.

    https://github.com/logisim-evolution/logisim-evolution

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