Multisim AlternativesCircuit Simulators & Electronic Design Automation Tools like Multisim

Multisim is described as 'Is industry-standard SPICE simulation and circuit design software for analog, digital, and power electronics in education and research' and is a circuit simulator in the education & reference category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Multisim for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Web-based and iPhone apps. The best Multisim alternative is Circuit JS, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Multisim are QUCS, LTspice, Altium Designer and Proteus PCB design.

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  1. Circuit JS icon

    Circuit JS

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    This is a javascript electronic circuit simulator. When the applet starts up you will see an animated schematic of a simple LRC circuit. The green color indicates positive voltage. The gray color indicates ground. A red color indicates negative voltage.

    47 Circuit JS alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
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    Its a good basic tool, but once doing anything past the pure basics its falls short really fast.

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    • Circuit JS is the most popular Web-based, Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Multisim.

    • Circuit JS is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Multisim.

    • Circuit JS is Free and Open SourceMultisim is Paid and Proprietary
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    QUCS

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    The Quite Universal Circuit Simulator (QUCS) is an integrated circuit simulator allowing the simulation and graphical presentation of results of large-signal, small-signal and noise behavior in circuits.

    36 QUCS alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  5. Altium Designer icon

    Altium Designer

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    Features a unified workflow for schematic capture, PCB layout, mixed analog/digital simulation, signal integrity analysis, real-time 3D editing, ECAD-MCAD collaboration, component libraries, collaborative design tools, BOM generation, routing, and manufacturing outputs.

    51 Altium Designer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    • Altium Designer is the most popular commercial alternative to Multisim.

    • Altium Designer is Paid and ProprietaryMultisim is also Paid and Proprietary
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    TINA

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    TINA Design Suite is a powerful circuit simulation package for analyzing, designing, and real time testing of analog, digital, VHDL, MCU, SMPS, RF, communication, optoelectronic and mixed electronic circuits and their PCB layouts.

    51 TINA alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Online
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    Ngspice

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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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