SLiCAP¶
Symbolic Linear Circuit Analysis¶
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Open-source version of SLiCAP: SLiCAP_python
What it is and why you should use it¶
- SLiCAP is an acronym for: S ymbolic Li near C ircuit A nalysis P rogram.
- SLiCAP is a more than a symbolic network simulation tool: ‘Symbolic SPICE’.
- SLiCAP helps you setting up and solving design equations of electronic circuits.
- SLiCAP is free of use licensed under a `Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Benefits¶
- Speeds up the circuit engineering process
- Makes complex symbolic analysis doable
- Compatible with Jupyter notebooks
- Integrates documentation and design with many easy to use built-in functions for HTML reports with plots, tables, expressions, etc.
- Supports design education and knowledge building
Features¶
- Accepts SPICE netlists as input
- Concurrent design and documentation
- Supports and facilitates Structured Electronic Design
Capabilities¶
- Conversion of hierarchical SPICE netlist into a symbolic or numeric matrix
- Symbolic and numeric dc variance analysis: symbolic statistical DC analysis
- Symbolic and numeric noise analysis
- Symbolic and numeric noise integration over frequency
- Symbolic and numeric determination of transfer functions and polynomial coefficients
- Symbolic and numeric determination of network solutions
- Accuate numeric pole-zero analysis
- Root locus plots with an arbitrary circuit parameter as root locus variable
- Concurrent stepping of multiple parameters for each type of analysis
- Generation of HTML project documentation