Electronics resources page

[Circuits & Systems]       [IC Design]      ** = Free


Circuits and Systems


Software and free utilities:

SCFilter** - Design tool for switched capacitor filters

FilterCAD** - A filter design progam to create filters using Linear Technology's monolithic filter ICs.

FilterLab** - An i
active filter design software tool fom Microchip.

gEDA** - GPL'd suite of Electronic Design Automation tools

TkGate**  Digital circuit simulator with a tcl/tk-based graphical editor

SMPS tools** - Switching Mode Power Supply (SMPS) Design Tools from Fairchild Semiconductors

Webbench - Online SMPS design tool from National

PLL Design Assistant** - A fast and straightforward design tool for PLLs at the transfer function level

EasyPLL -
Online PLL design tool from National

NI Multisim Analog Devices Edition** - To evaluate Analog Devices's components.

For more free circuit softwares please visit www.sourceforge.net and search for "circuit design". There are over 200 free circuit design softwares available in their database.


Circuit websites:

Circuit sage - Analog/RF Design Resources

EDN circuit design center

Pease Poridge - The archives of design column by Bob Pease in Electonics Today

The best of Bob pease

EDACafe - A collection of EDA design resources and a free email :)

School of Analog Design

Classical Opamp application notes from National - Opamp Circuit collection

Ti Opamp application notes
- Handbook of Operational Amplifier Applications
- Handbook of Operational Amplifier active RC networks
- Understanding Opamp specifications

Microchip Design center

Analog Devices's design handbooks

WE-MANI's

Chip Directory - Numerically and functionally ordered chip lists, chip pinouts and lists of manufacturers

Microcontroller.com - A resource webpage on Microcontrollers and DSPs

Electronics Lab - The electronic hobbyist corner

Web-EE - An online resource center for electronic circuits, tutoials, application notes, softwares etc.

Epanorama - An extensive collection of electronic weblinks

SMPS design resources -
Site1 http://www.smps.com/Knowledge/free.shtml
Site2 http://www.smps.us


SPICE:

AimSpice** - Automatic Integrated Circuit Modeling SPICE. A free student version is available.

SPICE OPUS
** - SPICE with integrated OPtimization UtilitieS.

WinSpice** - This is a port of Spice3F4 to Win32 systems.

LTspice/SwitcherCAD III
** - A high performance Spice III simulator, schematic capture and waveform viewer

SIMetrix Intro** - An enhanced SPICE based mixed signal simulation program with integrated schematic entry and waveform viewer.

TINA-TI ** - SPICE-Based Analog Simulation Program from TI

Multisim - Fomerly called Electonics workbench

Pspice - A very popular version of SPICE. Student version is free to request or download at mirror


Books:

Lessons In Electric Circuits **- A free series of textbooks on the subjects of electricity and electronics

SMPSMODE ** - A Complete SMPS design handbook (ON Semiconductor)

PLL Performance, Simulation and Design Handbook 4th Edition **

Other links: Coming Soon!


IC Design and FPGA based design[Top]
Tutorial links on HDL, FPGA and IC design:
Coming Soon!
 
Software and free utilities:

Alliance** - A complete set of free CAD tools and portable libraries for VLSI design

IRSIM** - A switch-level simulator

INSPIRE** - A VHDL Simulator

VHDL Simili** -   Development version is currently available for FREE

Free HDL** - GPL'ed VHDL simulator for Linux

OCEAN** - THE sea of gates design system

Chipmunk** - Schematic Entry and Digital or Analog Simulation

Magic** - VLSI Layout Editor

LASI** - LAyout Software for Individuals

For more IC design and circuit tools visit : http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/apps/circuits/

Books:

ASICs - by Michael John Sebastian Smith

Logic Design for Array-Based Circuits by Donnamaie E. White

Power, accuracy and noise aspects in CMOS mixed-signal design  by Sanduleanu, Mihai Adrian Tiberiu

Bit-Slice Design: Controllers and ALUs
  by Donnamaie E. White

Other links: Coming Soon!