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Conventional Analog Circuit Simulators
Berkeley SPICE, originator of a large
family of products
http://www-cad.eecs.berkeley.edu/Software/software.html
Berkeley software catalog:
http://buffy.EECS.Berkeley.EDU/IRO/Software/Catalog/
Available free. Operate under UN*X OSes and DOS (with some
restrictions).
XSPICE, Georgia Tech Research Institute
http://seal-www.gtri.gatech.edu/xspice/
For more information on XSPICE's facilities, see the paper
http://seal-www.gtri.gatech.edu/xspice/xspice.pdf
Available for low price (handling). Capability to add custom
models.
SPICE OPUS is a circuit simulator with optimisation
utilities. It is a recompilation of the original Berkeley's
source code for
Windows 95/98/NT and Linux operating systems. Georgia Tech
Research Institute's XSPICE mixed-mode simulator was
added to the Berkeley code.
http://fides.fe.uni-lj.si/spice/
Free.
SCEPTRE (System for Circuit Evaluation and Predicition of
Transient Radiation Effects) is a general purpose circuit
analysis program, which provides all three major analyses, AC,
DC, and transient analysis, on either linear or nonlinear
networks.
Announce about SCEPTRE can be found at http://www.psych.mcgill.ca/perpg/stds/rk/linux-announce.html#toc-89
And SCEPTRE itself + documentation at ftp://novilux.fh-friedberg.de/pub/sceptre_linux/
Free.
Commercial Spices and Spice like simulators.
Harmonic balance simulators
Berkeley HARMONIC BALANCE PROGRAM (formerly Harmonica
and Spectre) not free, but not expensive Frequency Domain
Simulator for Nonlinear Circuits.
http://buffy.eecs.berkeley.edu/IRO/Software/Catalog/Description/harmonic.balance.html
HABALA - HArmonic BALAnce Simulation Program. Windows and
Linux executables are free. Sources are available for fee both in
Fortan/C (originally) or in pure C (converted using f2c
converter).
http://users.sovamua.com/foratech/gserdyuk/hbfree/index.html
NEW! HbFree now at SourceForge:
http://hbfree.sourceforge.net
Commercial Microwave simulators, suites
NEW! Rincon Harmonic Balance VHDL-AMS Simulator
http://www.rincon-eda.com
Rincon is a Harmonic Balance and Modulation Harmonic Balance
circuit & system simulator. It uses VHDL-AMS with
frequency-domain extensions as circuit description language. That allows to use
behavioral modeling of components and blocks to perform simulation.
Free version available. Registration required.
Site also contains a bunch of example and publications on topic and organazed as
community portal.
Aplac, Aplac Solutions Corp.
http://www.aplac.hut.fi/aplac/
http://www.aplac.com/
APLAC is a general purpose nonlinear circuit, system, and
electromagnetic FDTD simulation and design program. The main
analysis modes are DC, AC, linear and nonlinear noise, transient,
oscillator, multitone harmonic steady state, switched
capacitor, small signal mixer, steady state transient, and
thermal feedback. Includes large set of microwave models:
microstrip/ stripline/ suspended substrate microstrip.
APLAC includes several optimization methods: exhaustive search,
genetic, gradient, conjugate gradient, minimax, Nelder-Mead,
random, simulated annealing, tuning (manual optimization) and
gravity center (design centering).
Agilent EEsof EDA - formerly HP EEsof, http://www.tmo.hp.com/tmo/hpeesof/
Serenade, Ansoft, http://www.ansoft.com
MMICAD Waveform, Optotek http://www.optotek.com,
http://www.optotek.com/timedom.htm
time domain transient analysis simulator. Not harmonic balance -
rather SPICE like. But directly intended for Microwave and RF
simulation.
Microwave Office 2000, AWR - http://www.appwave.com/products.html.
A complete nonlinear ("Nonlinear Suite") design
solution for RF & Microwave design. Includes harmonic balance
simulation, Volterra series, linear, noise and EM analysis in a
single integrated environment.
This section should be separaterd, as concerned to linear circuit simulators. But later.
ViPEC was inspired by the Touchstone (tm) circuit simulator
from HP EEsof.
http://netfold.com/~vipec/
Free.
Gennady Serdyuk, 2000, gserdyuk@mail.ru
27-apr-2000