Pspice AlternativesTop Circuit Simulators & Electronic Design Automation Tools like Pspice

One of the most popular alternatives to Pspice is Circuit JS, which is free and open source. Other popular alternatives are QUCS, LTspice, Proteus PCB design and EasyEDA. You're spoiled for choice with Circuit Simulators like Pspice: we list more than 25 alternatives for Windows, Mac, Linux, the web and iPhone.

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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.

    49 Circuit JS alternatives

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  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.

    37 QUCS alternatives

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  3. LTspice icon
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    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.

    38 LTspice alternatives

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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  4. Proteus PCB design combines the schematic capture and ARES PCB layout programs to provide a powerful, integrated and easy to use suite of tools for professional PCB Design.

    50 Proteus PCB design alternatives

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    • Windows
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  5. EasyEDA icon
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    Schematic capture, Ngspice based simulation, PCB layout, custom PCB manufacturing, for electronic engineers, educators, students and hobbyists.

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
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  6. 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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    • Windows
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  7. Ktechlab icon
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    KTechLab is an IDE for microcontrollers and electronics. It supports circuit simulation, program development for microcontrollers and simulating the programmed microcontroller together with its application circuit.

    29 Ktechlab alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
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  8. Qucs-S icon
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    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.

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    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
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  9. NI Circuit Design Suite software improves the PCB design process by integrating capture, simulation, and layout into a single toolchain with NI Multisim and Ultiboard software.

    46 NI Circuit Design Suite Power Pro alternatives

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    • Windows
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  10. 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.

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  11. Ngspice icon
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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.

    40 Ngspice alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
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