Qucs Part 2 - Drawing a simple schematic and DC analysis
Channel: Gary Fox
Date: 2014-02-16

In this video I show how simple it is to draw a schematic in Qucs and to do a DC Analysis.  This is shown in real time and only took me about 10 minutes to complete the work.  I have played with the program a couple of hours and was able to accomplish this quickly.

You will see a few mistakes and mis-steps while I am doing this.  I left them in to show how you can work through things.

This will be used in a series of posts on my blog about how to design transistor circuits.   At first I will teach what I call the pencil and paper method.  I am doing it this way so readers can get a very good idea of the effect of each component in the circuit.  I will still use this program to do those calculations quickly and to draw circuits fast but I will use simple lumped components to represent the transistor.  Then after several blogs we will go to a complete simulation using actual transistor models and the non-linear devices.

Although some might call this a tutorial, it is not my intention to create Qucs tutorials.  Others have already created tutorials.

Check out my website:  http://create-and-make.com/  if you are interested in this information.