QucsatorRF is a command-line circuit simulation engine designed particularly for radio-frequency and microwave circuits. It serves as a specialised simulation backend for Qucs-S, which provides a graphical interface for schematic capture, simulation control, and visualisation.
The simulator accepts a network list as input and generates results using the Qucs XML dataset format. While general-purpose circuit simulation is possible, its main strength is RF and microwave modelling, complementing SPICE-compatible engines such as Ngspice used by Qucs-S.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Command-line driven circuit simulator focused on RF and microwave circuit design.
- Designed for integration with the Qucs-S graphical circuit design environment.
- Supports RF-oriented component and transmission-line models including microstrip devices.
- Provides S-parameter simulation for analysing high-frequency networks.
- Supports general circuit simulation, although RF and microwave applications are its primary focus.
- Reads circuit network lists and writes simulation results using the Qucs XML dataset format.
- Includes QucsconvRF, a companion utility for converting circuit and simulation data formats.
- QucsconvRF supports conversion of a range of SPICE-related data and device representations.
- Supports conversion of VDMOS device definitions and magnetic CORE data from SPICE formats.
- Can optionally be built with ADMS support for Verilog-A device modelling.
- Has no mandatory runtime dependencies beyond the standard C++ library.
- Uses CMake as its build system with Flex, Bison, Gperf, and Dos2unix required when compiling from source.
- Can be compiled natively on Linux and with the MSYS2 environment on Windows.
- Distributed as part of Qucs-S, so Qucs-S users normally do not need to install the simulator separately.
- Available as a separate package in some Linux distributions.
Website: github.com/ra3xdh/qucsator_rf
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Developer: Vadim Kuznetsov
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
QucsatorRF is written in C++. Learn C++ with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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| CIDER | Mixed-level circuit and device simulator |
| XicTools | Electronic design suite with IC layout editing and circuit simulation |
| Gnucap | General purpose circuit simulator |
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