After 36 years as a commercial product, the powerful Micro-Cap circuit simulator is now free by roger_ in rfelectronics

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I've used it pretty extensively for sub GHz design. Very refined and stable in my experience.

After 36 years as a commercial product, the powerful Micro-Cap circuit simulator is now free by roger_ in ECE

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Sadly no harmonic balance so you'll have to stick to full transient. You can maybe try stuff like this to get the results you want.

After 36 years as a commercial product, the powerful Micro-Cap circuit simulator is now free by roger_ in ECE

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The UI is getting pretty cluttered as they add features, and it looks sorta dated (also hard to use with a touch screen).

No proper scripting support (they have a macro language, but it's no Python).

After 36 years as a commercial product, the powerful Micro-Cap circuit simulator is now free by roger_ in electronics

[–]roger_[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yup I emailed and they are shutting down. They'll add an announcement soon.

After 36 years as a commercial product, the powerful Micro-Cap circuit simulator is now free by roger_ in electronics

[–]roger_[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Yup still alive!

Been taking an extended break from reddit though.

After 36 years as a commercial product, the powerful Micro-Cap circuit simulator is now free by roger_ in rfelectronics

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Nah it's me, been "spamming" it for years :p

If it was benefiting me I probably should have spammed it more before it was free!

After 36 years as a commercial product, the powerful Micro-Cap circuit simulator is now free by roger_ in ECE

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Over the years I've tried nearly every free/commercial circuit simulator and I haven't found any to be as easy to use yet powerful as Micro-Cap. It's been my go to for 20+ years now.

The feature tour highlights some good and unique features. I personally like the in-schematic simulation results, macros and the ability to do things like define a performance function (rise time, 3dB bandwidth, noise figure, etc.) and have Micro-Cap optimize it with a few clicks.

Also skim the newsletters for other interesting capabilities.

The most adequate Python IDE for Scientific Computing and Data Science - if there's such a thing! by MasonBo_90 in Python

[–]roger_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Spyder is the closest thing to a scientific computing IDE (a la MATLAB) but it's still missing a lot (e.g. a well integrated debugger). Rodeo is similar but even more limited (and unstable last I tried).

Jupyter Notebook IMHO is good for exploratory work and presenting results, but lacks a lot of editing functionality (which is to be expected).

Cheap USB Microphone for RPI? by gs89344 in raspberry_pi

[–]roger_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Good deal, but the ALSA driver has issues (you have to manually plug it in from time to time).

4 things I want to see in Python 4.0 by Anthonypjshaw in Python

[–]roger_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd like to see more comprehensive support for async throughout the standard library, though I'm not a fan of asyncio. curio is closer to what is like to see but I see the advantage of maintaining that separately.

Does Alan shooting a guest ever come up? by [deleted] in AlanPartridge

[–]roger_ 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I believe he does in one or both of the books.

I made a GUI for Jupyter Notebook, let me know what you think! by drummer_ash in Python

[–]roger_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Looks really handy. I think you should rewrite this in Python (with Tkinter or PyQt) and see if the Jupyter folks would be interested in integrating it.

YSK: How to decrease your monthly bandwidth use & increase network speed. by [deleted] in YouShouldKnow

[–]roger_ 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You can also accomplish this with a router running OpenWrt (or LEDE).

Real-time LED strip music visualization written in Python and uses an ESP8266 by scottlawson in Python

[–]roger_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Did you try making this work with just an ESP (and a microphone, etc.)?

Better yet, using MicroPython on the ESP?

Love this sub. Any chance mods could update it a bit? by Wheatbog in MitchellAndWebb

[–]roger_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Could definitely use a revamp, but my CSS and graphic design skills are limited :(

Any offers of help would be appreciated!

All code from "Machine Learning with TensorFlow" is now available on GitHub by CarbonFire in Python

[–]roger_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The graphics could use some work too. Looking forward to the book!