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Title: Need electrical trouble shooting software help
Post by: The Buddha on January 12, 2012, 11:51:01 AM
I am looking for a software of sorts that can help me trouble shoot a circuit. Like I feed it a circuit diagram and say what is wrong with it and it will tell me what to test and so on.

I have heard that a software called multisim can do it, I'm looking for confirmation and if not, if anything else can.
Thanks all ye electronica guru types. I humbly request to be added to your ranks.
Cool.
Buddha..
Title: Re: Need electrical trouble shooting software help
Post by: beRto on January 14, 2012, 05:46:35 PM
Hey Buddha,

Electronic simulation software is definitely available. I've used SPICE (OpenSource), which works really well for analog circuits. You drag-and-drop the components and connect them together. You can model in voltage and current probes. Then you flip a switch and see what happens.

Wikipedia has a list of free software:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_free_electronics_circuit_simulators