| No. |
SPICE
variation |
Pluses |
Minuses |
| 1 |
Old version of PSpice 9.1 http://www.electronics-lab.com/downloads/schematic/013/ |
Small size Still available |
Student version: works for up to
20 nodes? |
| 2 |
OrCad
Demo (from Cadence bought: OrCad bought: MicroSim developed
PSpice) https://www.cadence.com/products/orcad/Pages/downloads.aspx |
OrCad
PCB
design
tools.
One
of
the most popular. Affordable for academia |
Free
only
the
demo
version:
allows
simulation of circuits of up to 20 nodes? Takes 2G |
| 3 |
Virtuoso Spectre (from Cadence) http://www.cadence.com/products/cic/spectre_circuit/pages/default.aspx |
Spice-level simulation for
analog, radio frequency (RF) and mixed-signal circuits |
|
| 4 |
HSpice
(from Synopsys) http://www.synopsys.com/Tools/Verification/AMSVerification/CircuitSimulation/HSPICE/Pages/default.aspx |
||
| 5 |
Multisim
(from National Instruments) (formerly from Electronics Workbench) http://www.ni.com/academic/multisimse.htm http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/tut/p/id/6030#textbooks |
Student version. Plenty of edu
materials |
|
| 6 |
T
Spice (from Tanner) http://www.tanner.com/EDA/product/TSpice_CurcuitSim.html |
Academic discounts |
No student version |
| 7 |
LT
Spice IV (from Linear Technology) http://www.linear.com/designtools/software/index.jsp |
Free,
Windows No registration required: you can simply download it! |
|
| 8 |
NGSpice
part of gEDA tools http://www.gpleda.org/tools/index.html |
Free, Linux |
|
| 9 |
Berkeley
Spice http://embedded.eecs.berkeley.edu/pubs/downloads/spice/index.htm |
Free |