Saturday, May 14, 2011

0 LIST OF FREE ENGINNERING SOFTWARES AVAILABLE



CAD software
OpenCascade (OSS)
Alibre Xpress (Free edition, need to register)
Google SketchUp (freeware)
A9CAD (General purpose 2D, freeware)
BRL CAD (solid modelling system, OSS)

ECAD software
KiCad (OSS)
Eagle (Free edition)

Mathematics/Numerical
Scilab (sorta OSS, alternative to MATLAB)

Analysis
Spectrogram Version 16 (Wave analysis. Freeware)
CANDE- Culvert ANalysis and DEsign (design and analysis of buried structures. Free version)
SNAILZ (stability analysis of slopes. Free version)

Circuit Analysis and Schematics
PSpice (student edition)
Circuit Maker 6 (student edition)
Multisim Designsuite 9 (freeware edition. Im not sure of the limitations yet)
SwCADIII (free version)

Compiler
Dev C++ 5 beta (OSS)
Dev C++ 4.9.9.2 Portable (OSS. It can run off a USB, pretty useful)
Visual Basic 2008 Express, Visual C++ 2008 Express (Freeware IDE's from Microsoft. Has some limitations, but ideal for students and hobbyists)

Microcontroller stuff
- PIC
MPLAB IDE (free version)
HI-TECH PICC-Lite (freeware with some limitations, quick registration)
WinPic800 (firmware burner)
PIC16F87x / 16F87xA bootloader (freeware)
Proton Development Suite (PICBASIC, free version available)

- NXP

FlashMagic (Free. Programming Tool For NXP Semiconductors)

Embedded RTOS
Salvo Lite (free version with some limitations)

Terminal/SSH
PuTTY (great free telnet and SSH client)
PuTTYCM (useful connection manager for multiple tabs and instances)

Network Tools
Wireshark (awesome network protocol analyzer)
GNS3 (cisco network simulator based on Dynamips. Note: Still need a licenced IOS)

Robotics
Microsoft Robotic Developer Studio (Express edition. Robot control and simulator)
Roborealm 1.0 (freeware version. Latest one is a trial version)
PHUN (a super fun physics simulator. xhx used it for our CE bot project)

Testing Tools

Selenium (web application testing tool. Discussion Thread -> Selenium - A Open source testing tool)

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