Favourite Software Tools

Circuit Design:

• KiCad
• Sprint Layout

Circuit simulation:

• LTSpice
• Falstad - Circuit Simulator

Radio Frequency (RF):

• Avago Technologies - AppCAD
• Signal Hound - Spike Spectrum analyzer, and Vector Signal Generator softwares

Documentation:

• DokuWiki
• Jupyter Notebook
• Open/Libre/MS Office

Automatization and Measurement:

• NI DAQmx / USB-600x
• Digilent WaveForms SDK / Analog and Digital Discovery devices
• FTDI Utilities (Simple USB interfacing)
• MicroPython - Thonny Python IDE / STM32 NUCLEO family and SEEED XIAO family

Programming:

• MicroPython, CircuitPython
• STM32CubeIDE
• MBED OS
• JetBrains - PyCharm, CLion
• SQLite, PostgreSQL, KeyDB(a Redis alternative), DBeaver
• Flask, HTML, HTMX

Mechanical Design:

• FreeCAD
• Simens - SolidEdge