Qucs

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Qucs

Qucs is an integrated circuit simulator which means you are able to setup a circuit with a graphical user interface (GUI) and simulate the large-signal, small-signal and noise behaviour of the circuit. After that simulation has finished you can view the simulation results on a presentation page or window [1].

Qucs-S

Qucs-S is a spin-off of the Qucs cross-platform circuit simulator. "S" letter indicates SPICE. The purpose of the Qucs-S subproject is to use free SPICE circuit simulation kernels with the Qucs GUI. It merges the power of SPICE and the simplicity of the Qucs GUI. Qucs intentionally uses its own SPICE incompatible simulation kernel Qucsator. It has advanced RF and AC domain simulation features, but most of the existing industrial SPICE models are incompatible with it. Qucs-S is not a simulator by itself, but it requires to use a simulation backend with it. The schematic document format of Qucs and Qucs-S are fully compatible [2].

Example usage video: default.jpg

Running the Above Simulation: More Details

Download Qucs-s and follow the installation instructions to install Qucs-S (Windows users will also need to download the .zip package and extract it to C:\SPICE)

Qucs2KiCAD

Qucs2KiCAD is intended to convert Qucs schematics to KiCAD format but doesn't seem to work