iCircuit 4+

Experiment with circuits

Krueger Systems, Inc.

    • 4.6 • 41 Ratings
    • £12.99
    • Offers In-App Purchases

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Description

iCircuit is the easiest way to design and experiment with circuits. Its advanced simulation engine can handle both analog and digital circuits, Arduino microcontrollers, 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 300 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 variety of automatic modes that make it easy for you to grasp the behavior of your circuit.

You can even export your circuits and PNGs, PDFs, and SVG files so that they are easy to include in reports or web sites. Scope data can even be exported for offline analysis.

Supported elements include:

• Programmable Arduino using a subset of the C programming language
• Programmable PIC controllers using assembly language or hex files
• Signal generators, Voltage sources, Current sources, and Dependent sources
• Resistors, Capacitors, and Inductors
• Manual SPST/SPDT and DPST/DPDT Switches, Push buttons, and Relays
• LEDs, Diodes, BJ Transistors, and MOSFETs, Thermistors
• Triodes and tetrodes
• Audio simulation with Speakers, Microphones, Buzzers, and LEDs
• DC Motors and Servos
• ADCs, and DACs
• Logic gates: AND, OR, NAND, NOR, XOR
• JK and D Flip-flops
• 180 digital ICs from the 4000 and 7400 series
• 78xx and LM317 voltage regulators
• 7-segment and matrix displays
• Antenna with simulated AM and FM signals

I hope you love the ease of simulating circuits with iCircuit!

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What’s New

Version 1.13

New elements:

NeoPixels and NeoMatrix
Keypad
Optocoupler
Transmission Lines
Photodiode
Power Supply Jack
Mono (TS), Stereo (TRS) and Headphone (TRRS) Jacks
PCA9685 PWM Board
EEPROMs
SCP1000 Pressure Sensor
Strain Gauges
MPU6050 Accelerometer and Gyroscope
AD5204 and AD5206 Digital Potentiometers
TSC7432 Color Light-To-Digital Converter
New capabilities:

Added the Arduino SPI library
Added the Arduino NeoPixel libraries (from Adafruit)
Added the Arduino EEPROM library
Added the Arduino Adafruit_PWMServoDriver library
Added the Arduino String library
Added the Arduino Keypad library
Photoresistor and Photodiode LED sensitivity
Series 7400 input voltages depends on VCC
Support for SPI and I2C with PIC16F877A
Support for SPI with Arduino (Master mode only)
Calculate light frequency and wavelength in LED infos
Show Internal Ports Voltages as Wires does
Persistant Arduino EEPROM memory
Fixes:

Fix PIC16F877A possible issues
Fix Internal Port bugs
Enable the Capacitor Loop warning (capacitor with no resistance)

Ratings and Reviews

4.6 out of 5
41 Ratings

41 Ratings

LoveStudlyMcStudMuffin ,

Great for amateurs/simple circuits

Great app for simple circuits/amateurs, teachers, etc. I've used it many times to design and test circuits prior to committing solder to wire.

It might be a little limited for anyone who is qualified/educated in electrical engineering wanting a full simulation of complex circuits.

The application itself is easy and simple to use. Like any 'design' application e.g. MS Visio, this has a '..drag, drop and connect..' GUI. The application itself is also not so complex, so not a great deal to learn; I picked up almost everything in 2 uses.

The simulation of the circuits is ok, very sufficient for an amateur, but anything complex tends to 'bug out'. The universe of integrated circuits expanded in 1.3.4 but still could do with some more. The application crashes sometimes but not as much as the previous versions, and definitely within an 'annoyance' tolerance. The automatic re-draw of the wire/connectors between components can also be annoying (but is ok nonetheless).

I would recommend this application to anyone, like me, who is an amateur electrical engineer who only needs to build simple circuits. For that purpose - it is an excellent tool and well worth the money.

iPodDragon ,

Useful, but could do with some tweaks still.

Hey, useful little app for general electronics tinkering, but desktop app could do with a few tweaks, is there any way to rotate a component before placing it down for e.g.?

and would be really nice to have a more interactive way to adjust eg varistor without clicking it!

Also microphone input does not appear to work?

MattS UK ,

Great if a little quirky

Fantastic tool for quickly sketching up test circuits and simple designs. The user interface is a little quirky imo. Good to see the project being actively developed again.

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