Qucs(1)

📦 version 0.0.20, in fedora 43, fedora 44

💖 NAME 💖

okay bestie, welcome to Qucs — it's an integrated electronic circuit simulator. that's the whole vibe. she simulates circuits and she does it well. ✨

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

qucs [OPTION] ...

that's it. that's the whole invocation. qucs plus whatever options you wanna throw at her. 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so Qucs is an integrated circuit simulator, which basically means you get to set up a whole circuit using a graphical user interface (GUI) — no cap, actual clicky-draggy goodness — and then simulate the large-signal, small-signal and noise behaviour of that circuit. and once the simulation is done? you get to look at the results on a presentation page or window. it's giving science fair but make it fashion. 🎀

the software is lowkey ambitious — it aims to support all kinds of circuit simulation types, like:

  • DC
  • AC
  • S-parameter
  • harmonic balance analysis
  • noise analysis
  • etc. (yes, literally "etc.", the original said it too, i'm not gonna pretend to know more than the manpage 💀)

and then there's Qucsator, the simulation backend — she's a command line circuit simulator. she takes a network list in a certain format as input and outputs a Qucs dataset. she was programmed for usage in the Qucs project, but honestly? other applications can use her too. she's not gatekeeping. 🫶

🌈 AVAILABILITY 🌈

the latest version of Qucs can always be obtained from:

https://sf.net/p/qucs

go get her bestie, she's free, she's iconic. 👑

💀 REPORTING BUGS 💀

known bugs are documented within the BUGS file. (yes, there's a whole file. they're documented. very transparent of them.)

found something cursed? report bugs to:

qucs-bugs@lists.sourceforge.net

we don't gatekeep bugs here, we report them. fr fr. 🙈

Copyright © 2003, 2004, 2005 Michael Margraf <michael.margraf@alumni.tu-berlin.de>

this is free software; see the source for copying conditions.

there is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

like, none. zero. nada. the legal equivalent of "good luck bestie, you got this" but in all caps. 😭 read the source if you wanna know the actual copying conditions — i'm just the messenger. 💜

🧚 AUTHORS 🧚

written by Michael Margraf <michael.margraf@alumni.tu-berlin.de> and Stefan Jahn <stefan@lkcc.org>.

two absolute legends. main character energy, both of them. 🌟

and that's the whole page, bestie!! this one came out of the Debian/GNU Linux manual, dated September 2004, and it's the Qucs(1) page — a certified classic. go simulate something gorgeous. mwah. 💅💖✨

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