Top 15 Electric Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

The Electric VLSI Design System is an open-source Electronic Design Automation (EDA) system that can handle many forms of circuit design, including:

Custom IC layout
Schematic Capture (digital and analog)
Textual Languages (such as VHDL and Verilog)
...and much more.

Electric is free software, and is an official GNU package.

1. PCBWeb

PCBWeb PCBWeb is a 100% free Windows desktop CAD application for designing and manufacturing electronics hardware. Features include schematic capture, PCB Layout with gerber output, and Bill of Materials manager.......

2. QuickCopper

QuickCopper Powerful and simple to use electronic schematics editor for Android. * Presentation-quality schematics * Customizable component styles * Convenient wire drawing with automatic routing * Share as PNG/JPEG/SVG/PDF * The Android design patterns followedThe application is completely free, no advertisment or spyware included. Only minimal permissions requiried: access to SD......

3. Altium Designer

Altium Designer Altium Designer(currently version 15) is an all in one sofware for PCB design. From schematic to PCB as well as FPGA programmation, signal integrity check, mixed analog/digital simulation, this software is what you need when it comes to PCB design.......

4. Pspice

Pspice Cadence® Pspice® is a full-featured, native analog and mixed-signal circuit simulator. The demo version limits the number of nodes (and other features?) available.......

5. Synopsys Design Compiler

Synopsys Design Compiler Synopsys offers Design Compiler 2010 that provides a twofold speedup of the synthesis and physical implementation flow. RTL designers can perform what if floor plan exploration to identify and fix floor plan issues early.......

6. PartSim

PartSim PartSim is a free and full-featured SPICE circuit simulator that runs directly in your browser. PartSim schematic editor runs in your browser using javascript and does not require the use of any plugins. All you need to do is draw your schematic using components that are available in the tool's......

7. Ngspice

Ngspice Ngspice is a mixed-level/mixed-signal circuit simulator. Its code is based on three open source software packages: Spice3f5, Cider1b1 and Xspice. Ngspice is part of gEDA project, a full GPL'd suite of Electronic Design Automation tools.Spice3 does not need any introduction, is the most popular circuit simulator. In over 30 years......

8. Schematics

Schematics Schematics.com empowers engineers to design, share, and collaborate on circuit design online.......

9. ExpressSCH

ExpressSCH Free PCB layout software - Low cost circuit boards - Top quality PCB manufacturing......

10. ExpressPCB

ExpressPCB Free PCB layout software - Low cost circuit boards - Top quality PCB manufacturing......

11. Synplify Pro

Synplify Pro Generic FPGA synthesis front-end for FPGAs such as Xilinx and Altera.......

12. EAGLE

EAGLE The EAGLE Layout Editor is an easy to use, yet powerful tool for designing printed circuit boards (PCBs). The program consists of three main modules: Layout Editor, Schematic Editor, and Autorouter.......

13. Micro-Cap

Micro-Cap Micro-Cap 11 is an integrated schematic editor and mixed analog/digital simulator that provides an interactive sketch and simulate environment for electronics engineers.Numerous features contribute to the power of Micro-Cap 11:• 64-bit version for large circuits• Multi-page hierarchical schematic editor• PSpiceTM, SPICE3, and many HSPICETM commands and models supported• Threading......

14. Logicly

Logicly - Design circuits quickly and easily with a modern and intuitive user interface with drag-and-drop, copy/paste, zoom & more.- Take control of debugging by pausing the simulation and watching the signal propagate as you advance step-by-step.......

15. LTspice

LTspice LTspice IV is a high performance Spice III simulator, schematic capture and waveform viewer with enhancements and models for easing the simulation of switching regulators.......