The Qucs/QucsStudio and Qucs-S Graphical User Interface: An Evolving "White-Board" for Compact Device Modeling and Circuit Simulation in the Current Era: Invited Paper

The Qucs/QucsStudio and Qucs-S simulators share a common graphical user interface which has slowly evolved into an interactive platform for drawing circuit schematics, controlling simulation and displaying simulation output data and measured device/circuit parameters/properties. This interface acts...

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Published in2020 27th International Conference on Mixed Design of Integrated Circuits and System (MIXDES) pp. 23 - 32
Main Author Brinson, Mike
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published Department of Microelectronics & Computer Science 01.06.2020
Subjects
"White-Board" display
Circuit simulation
compact device modeling
Data models
data visualization
Graphical User Interface
Graphical user interfaces
Hardware design languages
Integrated circuit modeling
Mathematical model
Qucs-S
Qucs/QucsStudio
SPICE
Verilog-A
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Summary:The Qucs/QucsStudio and Qucs-S simulators share a common graphical user interface which has slowly evolved into an interactive platform for drawing circuit schematics, controlling simulation and displaying simulation output data and measured device/circuit parameters/properties. This interface acts as a window for accessing circuit simulation software and is in many ways similar to the "White-Boards" that are popular among scientists and engineers for recording ideas when "brainstorming" circuit design or analysis problems. This paper outlines the evolution of the Qucs device modeling and simulation "white-Board" from concept to working media over the fifteen year period that Qucs, QucsStudio and Qucs-S have been under development. The operation of a number of the "White-Board" features are introduced with a compact tunnel diode model and the simulation data obtained from tests using the QucsStudio and Qucs-S software packages.
DOI:10.23919/MIXDES49814.2020.9155809