Re: Magnetics Simulators

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Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <dhmccauley-at-spacecatlighting-dot-com>

 > For finite element method magnetics sims,
 >
 >   http://femm.berlios.de
 >   http://quickfield-dot-com
 >
 > or if you want mixed RF+EM+spice+digital simulations
 >
 >   http://www.aplac-dot-com
 >
 >   (Microsim/Orcad pspice 9.2 is better simulations and GUI
 >   wise but then Aplac includes lots of RF and magnetics design components,
 >   which pspice doesn't. afaik)

Actually, Microsim PSPICE is probably the WORST program out there for
simulating magnetics and other than simple linear models,
it doesn't really do anything else.

I'm basically look for some type of software (other than ANSOFT which I use
at work) which actually lets your define the physical dimensions
of a core, define the core material, windings etc... and do both magnetic
and electrical simulations.

I'll check the above links though.  Thanks
Dan





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