Comment by mbrodersen
4 years ago
I have a CS background and are interested in learning more about electronics. Is there a good beginners tool I can use to accurately simulate electronic diagrams and learn from?
4 years ago
I have a CS background and are interested in learning more about electronics. Is there a good beginners tool I can use to accurately simulate electronic diagrams and learn from?
Digilent (now part of National Instruments) has some good HW and SW (with accompanying tutorials) for students.
* HW - Analog Discovery 2 or Analog Discovery Studio - https://digilent.com/shop/test-and-measurement-equipment/usb...
* SW - Multisim - https://digilent.com/shop/ni-multisim-student-edition-circui...
* Tutorials - https://learn.digilentinc.com/
Thanks. Much appreciated.
The Analog Discovery 2 + Digital Discovery from Digilent will give you everything. They are small, easy to carry and the Waveforms software interface is pretty good.
You might also want to take a look at;
* RedPitaya STEMLab - https://redpitaya.com/
* Saleae - https://www.saleae.com/
This tool helped me a lot over the past decade, and I still jump to it for simple circuit simulation at work (I do embedded firmware development, but lots and lots of oscilloscope/multimeter/logic analyzer use to troubleshoot and validate)
https://www.falstad.com/circuit/
This tool is fast enough to whip things up during a troubleshooting session alongside Electrical Engineers, and thorough "enough" to be used as a reasonable reference by the Electrical Engineers.
Thanks! I will check it out.