Electronics Student Essential Tools - iCircuit

iCircuit is the premier iPad and iPhone app for designing and experimenting with circuits. Its advanced simulation engine can handle both analog and digital circuits and features realtime always-on analysis. It is the perfect companion to students, hobbyists, and engineers.

You use it as you would any CAD program: you add elements, connect them together, and set their properties.

But iCircuit is unlike other CAD programs because it is always simulating. It's just like working with the real circuit. You do not stop to take a measurement or spend a lot of time configuring reports. Instead, you just play with the circuit as you normally would, with the power on!

There are over 30 elements you can use to build your circuits. The app has everything from simple resistors, to switches, to MOSFETS, to digital gates.

The app features a multimeter that you use to probe around the circuit to instantly read voltages and currents. If you want to see how a value changes over time, then you can add values to the built-in oscilloscope. The scope can simultaneously track many signals over time and features a touch interface to control the total time displayed and stacked and unstacked modes to easily compare signals.

Supported elements include:

* Signal generators, Voltage sources, and Current sources
* Resistors, Capacitors, and inductors
* Manual SPST/SPDT Switches, and SPST/SPDT relays
* Diodes, BJ Transistors, and MOSFETs
* Speakers, Microphones, Buzzers, and LEDs
* ADCs, and DACs
* Logic gates: AND, OR, NAND, NOR, XOR
* JK and D Flip-flops
* 7-segment display and driver

ATTENTION Because iCircuit is a very CPU intensive application, it is recommended that you only use it on newer generation hardware including: iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, and iPads. However, it will still function on the older hardware.

What's new in Version 1.2

NEW
★ Automatic wiring used when moving parts - keeps your circuit working no matter where you position them
★ iPhone UI upgraded to make it 333% easier to use
★ The wiring tool is now "dramatic" to help you make circuits faster
★ Improved circuit management UI includes easier export and changing default settings of circuits
★ Undo allows you to explore the edit history of circuits and jump to past versions, just press and hold the Undo button for a second to see this history
★ Transformer, SCR, Sweep, Microphone, Accelerometer, and Lamp elements added
★ Element editor now brought up by double-tapping & value inputs have quick magnitude-change buttons
★ Printing and emailing PDFs now supported on iOS 4.2

FIXES
★ Lots of bug fixes to make the app compatible with the new iOS
★ Less crashing and much better performance
★ Fixed the annoying popping sound that the Speaker element made (still not perfect, but it's gotten better)

File size: 7.9 MB
Version: 1.2
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