Any software that can automatically turn schematic into simulation?

[jwhmca]

looking for something that might turn schematics into simulations

 

[etheory]

LTSpice:
http://www.linear.com/designtools/software/?gclid=CPH50YW2zbkCFQgepQodz2cAeA#LTspice

Define automatic? You mean like OCR to an LTSpice file?

 

[culteousness1]

Eagle v5 comes with an interface to LTSpice IIRC...

 

[etheory]

Eagle v5 comes with an interface to LTSpice IIRC...

Yep - I use it all the time:
http://www.groupdiy.com/index.php?topic=52461.0

 

[pucho812]

been using proteus on a windows emulation for mac for years now. It does circuit simulation. It has 2 programs that go with it, Aris and Icis for taking your captured schematic and making PCB layouts. It's very simple to use and works quite well. I've tried others before and nothing as simple as this. Even played around with eagle, Proteus just made sense to me where as eagle was a little difficult.

 

[leadbreath]

hey thanks for te proteus lead, ill need to check it out as i also find eagle a pita.
mick

 

[pucho812]

well whats cool is if you have the processing power can run simulations in real time. not the best examples but general idea of what it can do. lots of proteus tutorials on youtube


here is a demo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qRtb8idz2c

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pD0f7AJjiQM

 

[jwhmca]

Well, I mean automatic as in It looks at a scanned image and reads the components and values and puts them into a simulation automatically... like adobe PDF can sometimes read scanned images

 

[gemini86]

No...nothing like OCR for schematics... it would be a mess...

If robots can't solve captcha images, there's little hope for them to be able to decipher the different between a connection and an intersection between two wires. Especially since most of the schematics you find around the web are poorly drawn to begin with.