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

Hosts: Parker Dillmann, Stephen Kraig

Special thanks to whixr over at Tymkrs for the intro and outro!