FOS Scientific Tools¶
This document provides a list of Free and Open Source Tools tailored to scientific and engineering usage for all fields. You are welcome to contribute. Each tool should have the website, purpose and a description as a descriptive list. Hardware tools are also welcome.
Table Of Contents¶
General Tools¶
Python¶
- Website
- https://docs.python.org/3/
- Purpose
- Programming Language
- Description
- Python is a programming language which is heavily used by scientists and engineers. There are many packages and modules out there, which implement a lot of libraries about all topics and all of those are at your finger tips at https://pypi.python.org/.
GNU Octave¶
- Website
- https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/
- Purpose
- Programming Language, Numerical Computation
- Description
- GNU Octave is a numerical computation tool which behaves pretty similar to Matlab. It comes with many toolboxes which are focused on specific areas like image processing. It also provides a programming language, so you are able to develop your own algorithms.
Electronics¶
Circuit Simulation¶
Quite Universal Circuit Simulator (Qucs)¶
- Website
- http://qucs.sourceforge.net/
- Purpose
- Circuit Simulation
- Description
- Qucs is an integrated circuit simulator which means you are able to setup a circuit with a graphical user interface (GUI) and simulate the large-signal, small-signal and noise behaviour of the circuit. After that simulation has finished you can view the simulation results on a presentation page or window.