
I included some that only cover someĪspects of electronics, as it may be easier to divide and conquer withĪ component simulator, instead of trying to teach with a duz-it-allĪpplication. I haven't tried them, but they appear to be >week from this coming Monday) to get 24 freshman students up to speed >I have exactly 60 minutes the first day of class (which is coming up a RCH, but a simple first-cut freshman oriented program that is an Anybody got a suggestion for a simple, cheap,Įasy to learn simulation program that doesn't need to be accurate to a To boot,ĪLL the student machines are loaded up with Deep Freeze which removesĪNYTHING that the students load onto their machines during class.ĭon't ask me to take DF off I fought IT all the way to mahogany row Station) are running XP and some of them are running Win7. AND some of the student machines (and the instructor After that first hour, we are off to the racesĪnd the kids need to have at LEAST a nodding acquaintance with the That would be an entirely different matter.īut it isn't the case. If I had a whole semester to teach Spice, Week from this coming Monday) to get 24 freshman students up to speed I have exactly 60 minutes the first day of class (which is coming up a I perhaps should have been more specific as to my application. You canĮven make stuff dance to the tunes of Led Zeppelin. Which depended on a formula in its value line. Resistor where the value depended on a node voltage. > value depend on some voltage, current, time, anything. > And you could easily parameterize any component, like make a capacitor > here, someone could take a look, massage it a bit, and post a corrected For example, if you get stuck you can post the whole thing > ECA224 which is (AFAIR) the predecessor of EWB. Take the plunge, I did over 20 years ago. > to use and doesn't let me do quick and dirty simulations that don't > Yeah, I know SPICE does everything but it is a royal pain in the ass

> simulator that is somewhat similar to EWB that doesn't cob up the OS? > Is there a (preferably free or cheap) circuit IMHO the last-known-good OS from MS is XP.

> I've got an OLD copy of Electronic Workbench that jams up Windows 7 Hundred years ago you could have been burned at the stake for running Running under DOS in turn under a 64-bit modern O/S. Just for laughs I'm going to have to load up DOS and run Z80MU (itĭoesn't run under XP-32- gives a stack overflow. You can even install DOS 6.22 if you really want. VMWare runs rather snappily even on a netbook-like computer (mobileĬore 2 duo). Those options will even allow you to runġ6-bit stuff from before 1990- I have an assembler from 1986 that >keep your old work while moving to a newer app.

>and a "real" XP installation from disks. I've also seen recommendations for VirtualBox >the option of running its Virtual XP mode which I've found does the job

However, if you're on Win7 Pro you do have
