Virtual Breadboard AlternativesCircuit Simulators and other similar apps like Virtual Breadboard

Virtual Breadboard is described as 'It is a circuit simulator on a virtual breadboard. it supports virtual components like microcontrollers, TTL, graphical and alphanumerical LCDs and others in addition to virtual instruments and certainly the basic components (resistors, capacitors..)' and is a circuit simulator in the education & reference category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Virtual Breadboard for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Web-based and Chrome OS apps. The best Virtual Breadboard alternative is Circuit JS, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Virtual Breadboard are QUCS, SimulIDE, CircuitJS1 Desktop Mod and gEDA Project.

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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

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

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

    • Circuit JS is Free and Open SourceVirtual Breadboard is Freemium 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

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    • Mac
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    • Linux
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  4. SimulIDE icon

    SimulIDE

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    SimulIDE is a simple real time electronic circuit simulator. It's intended for general purpose electronics and microcontroller simulation, supporting PIC and AVR. PIC simulation is provided by gpsim and avr simulation by simavr.

    15 SimulIDE alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    SimulIDE screenshot 1
     
  5. CircuitJS1 Desktop Mod icon

    CircuitJS1 Desktop Mod

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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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    • Linux
    1.2.5
     
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    gEDA Project

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    The gEDA project has produced and continues working on a full GPL'd suite and toolkit of Electronic Design Automation tools. These tools are used for electrical circuit design, schematic capture, simulation, prototyping, and production.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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    gschem
     
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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.

    38 Ngspice alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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    ngspice on KDE (Linux) with gschem in background
     
  10. Xcos icon

    Xcos

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    Xcos is a graphical editor to design hybrid dynamical systems models. Models can be designed, loaded, saved, compiled and simulated.

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    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  11. proteus VSM icon

    proteus VSM

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    A virtual simulation environment for electronic circuits with support of digital and analog devices. It also provides virtual instruments and virtual debugging tools.

    22 proteus VSM alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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    • proteus VSM is the most popular commercial alternative to Virtual Breadboard.

    • proteus VSM is Paid and ProprietaryVirtual Breadboard is Freemium and Proprietary
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    OpenModelica

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    OpenModelica – A Free Modelica Environment! OpenModelica is an open-source Modelica-based modeling and simulation environment intended for industrial and academic usage. Its long-term development is supported by a non-profit organization – the Open Source Modelica Consortium (OS.

    48 OpenModelica alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    LochMaster

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    Developers tool for strip board projects. It has useful functions for designing, documenting and testing project boards. Therefore you will find functions like auto-generation of components lists, a connection test, a editable library with a large number of symbols and...

    50 LochMaster alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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