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, Web-based, Linux, Mac and Flatpak 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
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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.

    48 Circuit JS alternatives

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

    • Circuit JS is Free and Open SourceMultisim is Paid and Proprietary
  2. QUCS icon
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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

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  3. Altium Designer icon
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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

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    • Paid
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  4. Pspice icon
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    Software for Simulating Voltage and Currents of a text file net-list of a electronics components such as Resistors, Capacitors, inductors, transisters, Diodes, Voltage and Current Sources, etc.

    33 Pspice alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
  5. TINA icon
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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

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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  6. This electronic circuit simulator is highly interactive giving the feeling of playing with real components. It's very helpful for experimentation and visualization. It's a desktop version of the Circuit JS.

    35 CircuitJS1 Desktop Mod alternatives

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  7. Flux.ai icon
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    Flux is where engineers shape the future of hardware, together. Contribute to the open source community, manage your projects, review schematics like a pro, track issues and features, power your workflows, and secure work before you commit it.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
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