Open-Source-Power-Electronic-Tools

Lists open source tools for power electronic engineers.

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Table of Contents

• Circuit Simulation and Calculation
• Drawing and Documentation
• Magnetics
• Schematics and Layout
• Calculation and Automatisation
• Control Platform

Circuit Simulation and Calculation

Name	Description	Link	Screenshot
eSim	eSim is an open source EDA tool for circuit design, simulation, analysis and PCB design.	Homepage GitHub
GeckoCIRCUITS	GeckoCIRCUITS is a fast and easy-to-use circuit simulator optimized for power electronics.	Wikipedia GitHub
GSEIM	GSEIM (General-purpose Simulator with Explicit and Implicit Methods) is meant for simulation of electrical circuits, especially power electronic circuits, and also for numerical solution of ordinary differential equations (ODEs).	Homepage GitHub
motulator	motulator is an open-source motor drive simulator in Python. It contains models for induction machines, synchronous reluctance machines, and permanent-magnet synchronous machines as well as various control methods as examples.	Documentation Examples
PyGeckoCircuits2	A Python wrapper for GeckoCIRCUITS.	Documentation GitHub
transistordatabase	A unified software engineering tool for managing and evaluating power transistors	Documentation PyPI

Drawing and Documentation

Name	Description	Link	Screenshot
CircuiTikZ	Set of macros on top of TikZ for typesetting electrical and electronic networks native to LaTeX	GitHub CTAN
CircuiTikZ-Designer	A GUI for drawing CircuiTikZ circuits	GitHub Website
CircuiTikZ for Inkscape	CircuiTikZ for Inkscape	GitHub
draw.io Desktop	Multiplatform diagramming and whiteboarding tool with electronics symbols	GitHub Online-Version
draw.io Electrical Engineering	Drawing electrical engineering and computer-science related diagrams, such as circuits and control-architectures in draw.io.	GitHub
Inkscape Circuit Symbols (Inkscape Extension)	Circuit Symbols as Inkscape extension	GitHub
Inkscape Electric Symbols	Electrical symbol library for the vector graphics program Inkscape.	GitHub

Magnetics

Name	Description	Link	Screenshot
AI-mag	Inductor Modeling and Design using Artificial Neural Network and Finite Element Method	GitHub
Elmer	Finite element software for multiphysical problems including electro-thermal domains	GitHub
FEMM	A Windows finite element solver for 2D and axisymmetric magnetic, electrostatic, heat flow, and current flow problems with graphical pre- and post-processors.	Homepage
FEMMT	Python toolbox to generate preconfigured structures for FEM simulation tools in power electronics	GitHub
GetDP	GetDP is a free finite element solver using mixed elements to discretize de Rham-type complexes in one, two and three dimensions.	GitLab
Gmsh	Gmsh is an open source 3D finite element mesh generator with a built-in CAD engine and post-processor	Wikipedia GitLab
Litz Wire Losses with FEM and MATLAB	Litz Wire Losses with FEM and MATLAB	GitHub
Magnet	Data Driven Methods for Magnetic Core Loss Modeling	GitHub
Magnetic Components Toolbox MATLAB	MATLAB Toolbox for Power Magnetics: Model and Optimization	GitHub
Magnetic Mirroring Method with MATLAB	Magnetic Mirroring Method with MATLAB	GitHub
OM	OpenMagnetics (OM) is a project providing a common language for defining any kind of magnetic for power electronics.	Homepage GitHub
ONELAB	ONELAB is an open-source, lightweight interface to finite element software	GitLab
Sparselizard	FEM simulation software	GitHub

Schematics and Layout

Name	Description	Link	Screenshot
Horizon	Schematic and layout editor with focus on simple part management.	GitHub Docs
KiCad	Schematic and layout editor.	Wikipedia GitLab
KiClearance	Generate clearance rules for KiCAD by a human-readable easy-to-use table.	GitHub Documentation
LibrePCB	A powerful, innovative and intuitive EDA tool for everyone!	GitHub Docs

Calculation and Automatisation

Name	Description	Link	Screenshot
Julia	Programming language	Wikipedia GitHub
Octave	Numerical programming language	Wikipedia GitLab
Python	Programming language	Wikipedia GitHub
Scilab/Xcos	Numerical programming language and dynamic system simulator	Wikipedia GitLab

Control Platform

Name	Description	Link	Screenshot
AMDC	Advanced Motor Drive Controller	Documentation Hardware GitHub Firmware GitHub
LCB - LEA Control Board	Control board for power electronics usage.	GitHub
UltraZohm	Open Source Rapid Control Prototyping Platform	Documentation Bitbucket