MEP EP#226: Chickens and Tea leaves, Al's Simulation Recipe

MEP EP#226: Chickens and Tea leaves, Al's Simulation Recipe

Al Williams

• One of the authors behind Hackaday, a website that features electronic projects and other things that appeal to people interested in computers, electronics, and technology


• Ham radio operator


• Author of many books


• Has worked on everything from underwater technology to the International Space Station and just about everything in between


• Was on previous episodes
  
  
  • EP#57: Mr. Williams, your book changed my life
  
  
  • EP#94: Al Williams and the Field Programmable Gate Arrays
  
  
  • EP #160: Al Williams and the One Instruction Wonder
  
  
  
  

Simulations

• What do you think of simulation?
  
  
  • Analog?
  
  
  • Digital?
  
  
  
  


• Different simulation software
  
  
  • LTSpice
  
  
  • Xyce from Sandia
  
  
  • TINA from TI
  
  
  • KiCad integrated spice
  
  
  • Microcap 12
  
  
  • EasyEDA
  
  
  • FALSTAD
  
  
  
  


• LTSpice to Python bridge


• Hackaday's Circuit VR


• Where simulated or logical performance doesn’t match real world behavior