Symbolic Analysis Program for Windows (SAPWIN) is a proprietary symbolic circuit simulator written in
C++ for the
Microsoft Windows
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operating systems Vista, 7.0 and 8.1. Unlike more common numerical circuit simulators (such as Simulation Program with Integrated Circuit Emphasis (
SPICE
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)), SAPWIN can generate analytical
Laplace
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domain expressions for arbitrary network functions of
linear
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* linearity of a '' function'' (or '' mapping'');
* linearity of a '' polynomial''.
An example of a linear function is the function defined by f(x) ...
analog circuits
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. The SAPWIN package also includes tools for
schematic capture
Schematic capture or schematic entry is a step in the design cycle of electronic design automation (EDA) at which the electronic diagram, or electronic schematic of the designed electronic circuit, is created by a designer. This is done interac ...
and graphic post-processing.
SAPWIN is available free from its homepage at the
University of Florence
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History
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website.
SapecNG
Symbolic Analysis Program for Electric Circuits - Next Generation (SapecNG) is the
open-source software
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relative of SAPWIN, written in
Boost C++ libraries
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Science, technology and mathematics
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* Boost (C++ libraries), a set of free peer-reviewed portable C++ libraries
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and designed to be
cross-platform
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. QSapecNG is a
Qt-based
graphical user interface
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(GUI) and schematic capture program for SAPEC-NG.
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See also
* Comparison of EDA software
This page is a comparison of electronic design automation (EDA) software which is used today to design the near totality of electronic devices. Modern electronic devices are too complex to be designed without the help of a computer. Electronic dev ...
* List of free electronics circuit simulators
* Symbolic Circuit Analysis
References
External links
*
SAPWIN - A Symbolic Simulator as a Support in Electrical Engineering Education
*
Electronic circuit simulators
Free software programmed in C++
Free electronic design automation software
Electronic design automation software for Linux
University of Florence
Windows-only free software
Engineering software that uses Qt
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