About
QucsStudio is mainly a circuit simulator that has evolved out of the project Qucs, but isn’t compatible with it. Many things have been completely reworked. It’s meant as a development environment for electrical engineers (graphical user interface, circuit simulator, PCB layouting, numerical data processing etc.), which can compete even with professional products. The application uses Qt4® by the Qt Company® as graphical user interface.
By the way: The correct pronunciation of Qucs is [kju:ks].
Support
QucsStudio is a non-commercial project that is developed completely privately in spare time. Therefore, it needs the support of its users, e.g. with:
Programmers can help, for example, with the following tasks:
- Create component libraries of the well-known companies
- Programming extensions like filter synthesis, importing files (Gerber, OpenAccess, STEP files, KiCAD, pcbmodelgen …)
- EM simulation core for the method of moments, e.g. basing on GLMoM, Puma-EM or Scuff-EM
- (Complex) examples for circuit optimization.
- Improving the microstrip, stripline and coplanar models
- Extending the functionality of the VerilogA interface or use OpenVAF
- Creating new components in C/C++ or VerilogA. This task also includes test circuits that show the correct behaviour and references to publications about the used models.
Examples for such components are:- different transformers (with magnetic core, for 3-phases, with complex transfer function, Laplace)
- tubes
- varactors
- different MOSFET models
- CMC models
- Verification of integrated components and simulations, e.g. by testing with other circuit simulators, perhaps also with speed comparison.
Citation
Everybody who uses QucsStudio for a publication is kindly asked to cite the software as follows.
BibTex:
@ELECTRONIC{QucsStudio,
author = {Michael Margraf},
title = {QucsStudio – A Free and Powerful Circuit Simulator},
url = {http://qucsstudio.de}
}
References
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