eSim: An Open Source CAD Software for Circuit Simulation

#circuits

SPEAKER:
Prof. Kannan Moudgalya, IIT Bombay (IN)

ABSTRACT:
Free and Open Source Software for Education (FOSSEE) (https://fossee.in) is a project initiated by the Ministry of Education at IIT Bombay. It promotes many open source software systems, such as Scilab, Python, R, OpenModelica, OpenFOAM and DWSIM. It also promotes open source hardware projects, such as Arduino, and OpenPLC.

By combining KiCAD and Ngspice, FOSSEE has developed an open source circuit simulation software eSim (https://esim.fossee.in). By incorporating GHDL, eSim has been made capable of carrying out mixed signal simulation. This capability has been extended to simulate circuits with microcontrollers, with every instruction being implemented through a function written in C. The FOSSEE team has also created a cloud version of eSim (https://simulation.iitbx.in/). FOSSEE carries out several activities to promote circuit simulation through eSim. It has trained about 37,500 students (12,500 women and 25,000 men) and 5,000 faculty members (2,000 women and 3,000 men) on the use of eSim. FOSSEE helps colleges migrate their labs from proprietary software to eSim. About 500 electronic circuits have been coded in eSim by students across India, and these are released as open educational resources.  These include circuits automatically converted from PSpice and LTSpice schematics to KiCAD, and hence, eSim. The talk will begin with an introduction to Spoken Tutorials (https://spoken-tutorial.org), the methodology developed by the speaker for large scale training on IT topics.  The talk will also give an overview of FOSSEE's activities.

SPEAKER BIO:
Prof. Kannan Moudgalya is an Emeritus Fellow at IIT Bombay in the department of chemical engineering, where, he was previously a Chair Professor.  He received a B.Tech degree in Chemical Engineering at IIT Madras.  He received Ph.D and Master of Electrical Engineering degrees from Rice University.  His areas of research interest are modelling, simulation, optimisation, and educational outreach.  He has written two textbooks: Digital Control, published by John Wiley&Sons, and Optimization, Theory and Practice, by Narosa.

Kannan has been focusing on massive IT skills education using open source software through Spoken Tutorial and FOSSEE projects. More than 8 million students have been trained using these projects. The FOSSEE project trains students to such a high level that they can become contributors themselves.  He is extending the Spoken Tutorial approach to other skills topics, such as health, nutrition, and breastfeeding.

Kannan received the Google MOOCs Research Award for the offline capability in Spoken Tutorials.  He was nominated for the Hindustan Times for Mumbai 2015 award.  The Spoken Tutorial project received the best prize in the Reimagine Education Award 2015 instituted by QS-Wharton, in the Nurturing Employment category.  He received the Pt. Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Recognition for Reengineering India 2020.

• Date: 11 Jun 2024
• Time: 02:00 PM to 03:00 PM
• All times are (UTC+02:00) Bern
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