Electrical Circuit Simulator

Running the Software

• To run the software, download the latest release off Github. If you don't already have it, you will be prompted to install the .NET 8.0 desktop runtime first.

About the Software

• Electrical Circuit Simulator is an app that can simulate electrical circuits via converting them into resistance/current matrices, and then solving for the node voltages via PLU matrix factorization.
• Note that Electrical Circuit Simulator is not a marketing term or a brand name, but simply a description of what the app does.
• This software uses Oxyplot as the graphing utility.
• This software and its source code are released under the MIT license. Oxyplot is also released under the MIT license.
• This app is x64, and is Windows-only due to using C++/CLI to join the C# UI code to the C++ simulation engine code.

User Interface

• The app has a list of circuits you can simulate, and you can also specify the time step and stop time to use in the simulations.

Creating/Modifying Circuits

• The software will load circuit files and their associated image files from the relative file location 'ElectricalCircuitSimulator\Circuits'.
• Circuit files support any number of components, but only one voltage and one current scope.
• Circuit files follow the format:
  • <Circuit Name>
  • <Components>
  • ScopeV(<0-based node index>)
  • ScopeI(<0-based component index>)
  • TimeStep(<value>)
  • StopTime(<value>)