I need a simulator for electronic circuit and PIC for linux to study PIC design, and I tried EAGLE,piklab,geda, hard to understand.. I don't know which is most suitable for learning circuits and PIC programming. Does anyone knows?
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I've used LTspice in Linux using Wine. It is good enough to simulate circuits and getting usable results. It won't learn you stuff but as a supplement to education/book it could be what you're looking for.
Learning PIC programming you'll need a good development board. Those are sold at any store that sells components. Choosing the right one is depending on taste and your need. Generally it should support multiple micro controllers and have basic I/O like LED, buttons buzzer and so on. Usually the board also have a few tutorials with them to kick-start you.
rozon
2009-03-25 10:38:37
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I found a really cool pic simulator, called Real Pic Simulator. You'll get amazed by the speed. Real-time simulation!! http://digitalelectrosoft.com
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gpsim is an open source Linux PIC simulator that is supposed to be pretty good.
SDCC is a Linux compiler for (among others architectures) PIC.
If you need a PIC starters kit, have a look at Dwengo, they have a fully-featured starters kit that is good value-for-money and comes with lots of tutorials (focused mostly on Windows/MPLab though, but it shouldn't be very hard to port that to SDCC or some other Linux compiler)
Wim
2009-10-30 12:32:35