On 2009-Jul-26 11:07:49 -0700, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: >Hi Sage-Devel (in particular, people who know about electrical circuits),
I'm not an EE but electronics is a hobby of mine. >I just happen to be meeting with an undergrad tomorrow at Univ. of >Washington about him possibly working with me, and he mentioned that >he wrote the following himself > http://www.circuitengine.com/ As a standalone tool, it looks good. >He also said he may be interested in GPL'ing it, possibly getting >something based on it into Sage (http://sagemath.org), etc. IMHO, there are two distinct issues to address: 1) What benefits would Sage gain from having electronic circuit simulation facilities built into it? 2) Assuming Sage would benefit from circuit simulation, is CircuitEngine a good choice? I don't think I'm in a position to offer useful input on the first question. As for the second, without denigrating the effort Kevin has put into it, I don't think CircuitEngine has a particularly wide range of features. IMHO, something like SPICE would bea much better choice. -- Peter Jeremy
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