Abstract of INFO-MAC archived Text file 'info/sft/circuit-analysis-software.txt' Uploaded 10/26/1993 26904 bytes Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1993 23:52:33 -0500 Date: Tue, 26 Oct 93 13:22:45 EDT From: Tom Coradeschi Subject: PSPICE Wally Patterson wrote: >I'm looking for a MAC-based circuit simulator call PSPICE. >Please, tell me where I can find it. SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS FOR THE MACINTOSH [These opinions are posted by Professor A. E. Siegman, E. L. Ginzton Laboratory MC-4085, Stanford University, Stanford CA 94305. Email responses directed to siegman@sierra.stanford.edu on Internet or RW.AAP@STANFORD on Bitnet will be welcomed.] ----- Messages keep appearing on Mac newsgroups asking about analog and digital circuit analysis programs and other EE-related educational programs for the Macintosh. This is a brief summary of Mac-based digital and analog circuit analysis programs I know about, plus a few additional programs that may be of interest to electrical engineering students and teachers. The programs reviewed here are: * B^2 Logic: a moderately priced digital circuit analysis program. * B^2 Spice: a very good moderately priced analog circuit analysis program based on SPICE; RECOMMENDED * CircuitMaker 3.0: commercial but relatively low-cost program (list price $200) combining circuit layout and drawing tool and digital circuit simulator. Haven't tried it, but review looks good. * Design Center PSPICE: an expensive professional-grade version of PSPICE, operable in the Mac but only in a primitive text-file-drive form. * DigSim: a very neat little shareware digital circuit analysis program; RECOMMENDED. * Electronics Workbench: described as "powerful (and modestly priced) software to build and simulate analog and digital circuits, on screen, with click-and-drag capabilities for adding components and connecting wires". Haven't had a chance to try it; but ads look good. * : an OK but not great implementation of SPICE for analog circuit analysi * LogiMac: another quite good small digital circuit analysis program.