[Author Prev][Author Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Author Index][Thread Index]
Re: gEDA-user: geda cygwin package
On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 13:25 -0400, al davis wrote:
> Educators typically use simulators very poorly, as if they
> themselves don't understand. In most cases, the total use is a
> few specified runs with a couple of graphs, that you do after
> everything else is done. A more appropriate use of simulators
> is to explore things that you can't see with real measurements.
> There is a lot that you can find out about a circuit that you
> can't measure in a practical way.
>
> Students need to learn to be flexible, and they need to learn to
> use computers effectively, not just by kicking the GUI a few
> times. EE's, even analog designers, need to learn some serious
> programming.
>
You're right, of course. In mitigation let me say that the particular
course for which I use swcad (LTSpice) is 4 x 2hr sessions for a dozen
students who've never seen an electronic cad package before. I try to
give them an understanding of the process from design to schematic to
test by simulation to pcb. I use gschem/gattrib/gsch2pcb/pcb and swcad.
The choice of swcad was a compromise to give me a better chance of
fitting it all in. It just gives them a taster for what might be
possible using simulation.
Sorry if I've started a swcad/gnucap/windows/linux war. I just happened
to have something I annually spend some time putting together and
suddenly realised that it might be useful to someone else.
--
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Peter Baxendale University of Durham
peter.baxendale@xxxxxxxxxxxx School of Engineering
tel +44 191 33 42492 South Road
fax +44 191 33 42408 Durham DH1 3LE
England
------------------------------------------------------------------------
_______________________________________________
geda-user mailing list
geda-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user