This looks amazing! But I'd prefer this on my laptop rather than my phone.
Semi-related, but what are some good books to learn circuit design and the electronic aspect of embedded in general?
Semi-related, but what are some good books to learn circuit design and the electronic aspect of embedded in general?
"There is also a Desktop Based version in development which offers a much wider range of tools, deeper analysis and extras such as schematic views and PCB layouts"
An example is that they talk about opamps as Lego blocks and how it can be configured to be an amp, a filter, a buffer, an inverter, an oscillator, a switch!
Instead of teaching a bunch of theoretical knowledge, which is important for certain things, they get you thinking how to use analog electronics to do stuff!
https://archive.org/details/art-of-electronics-3e
The first four or five chapters are quite nice. Beyond that it's too advanced for me, but I mostly dabble in analog guitar and audio electronics.
Includes interactive circuit simulations powered by CircuitLab https://www.circuitlab.com/ which runs in browser. And yes, the vast majority of our users are on laptop/desktop, not mobile/tablet. I don’t think engineering/design/simulation is moving to a phone form factor anytime soon :)
I’d still really recommend getting your hands dirty, getting off the simulator and go build something in the real world. Even if you don’t have an oscilloscope to start, just a solderless breadboard, a pack of resistors, maybe some switches and potentiometers and transistors and LEDs, and a few multimeters, and you can probably accomplish quite a bit of hands-on learning.
A thousand times I'd back the encouragement to get your hands dirty with this stuff. When you do get an oscilloscope it's like a whole new world opens up too. For basic hobbyist purposes even a simple 25MHz oscilloscope can be plenty. The EEVBlog forums have great recommendations for equipment (e.g. [1]) for hobbyists and resources for beginners [2] as well.
1: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/digital-oscilloscope-comparison-chart/
2: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/beginners/[1]Electrical, Electronics, and Digital Hardware Essentials for Scientists and Engineers
[2]Embedded Systems Hardware for Software Engineers
Since then, the logisim project has discontinued, but it looks like there is a open source successor:
https://github.com/logisim-evolution/logisim-evolution
Have not tried it, but it looks promising, provided you don't want to do too complicated things (not sure if you could really model complex CPUs like a pentium with it). Also, it's pretty digital only, so I wouldn't expect Mac-Spice-like analog circuit simulation.