TLE Basic Electronics - EveryCircuit Tutorial

EveryCircuit Tutorial

EveryCircuit is a circuit analysis tool. It is available on Android and Apple devices; there is also a version available on Google Chrome web browser for those without access to a tablet and only a computer. To start getting exposed to the program let's begin by looking at an overview of all the features in EveryCircuit.

EveryCircuit is an easy to use, highly interactive circuit simulator and schematic capture tool. Real-time circuit simulation, interactivity, and dynamic visualization make it a must have application for professionals and academia. EveryCircuit user community has collaboratively created the largest searchable library of circuit designs. EveryCircuit app runs online in Chrome browser and on mobile phones and tablets, enabling you to capture design ideas and learn electronics on the go.

Build any circuit, tap play button, and watch dynamic voltage, current, and charge animations. This gives you insight into circuit operation like no equation does. While simulation is running, adjust circuit parameters with analog knob, and the circuit responds to your actions in real time. You can even generate an arbitrary input signal with your finger!

That's interactivity and innovation you can't find in best SPICE tools for PC like Multisim, LTspice, OrCad or PSpice (trademarks belong to their respective owners).

EveryCircuit is not just an eye candy. Under the hood it packs custom-built simulation engine optimized for interactive mobile use, serious numerical methods, and realistic device models. In short, Ohm's law, Kirchhoff's current and voltage laws, nonlinear semiconductor device equations, and all the good stuff is there.

Growing library of components gives you freedom to design any analog or digital circuit from a simple voltage divider to transistor-level masterpiece.

Schematic editor features automatic wire routing, and minimalistic user interface. No nonsense, less tapping, more productivity.

Simplicity, innovation, and power, combined with mobility, make EveryCircuit a must-have companion for high school science and physics students, electrical engineering college students, breadboard and printed circuit board (PCB) enthusiasts, and ham radio hobbyists.

Create an account to unlock the full functionality for a limited time. The full version will employ all of your imagination, and all the screen area of your tablet. Join EveryCircuit cloud community to store your circuits on cloud, access them from any of your devices, explore public community circuits and share your own designs. The app requires a permission to access your account for authentication in EveryCircuit community.

Features:

+ Growing public library of community circuits

+ Animations of voltage waveforms and current flows

+ Animations of capacitor charges

+ Analog control knob adjusts circuit parameters

+ Automatic wire routing

+ Oscilloscope

+ Seamless DC and transient simulation

+ Single play/pause button controls simulation

+ Saving and loading of circuit schematic

+ Mobile simulation engine built from ground-up

+ Shake the phone to kick-start oscillators

+ Intuitive user interface

Components:

+ Sources, signal generators

+ Controlled sources, VCVS, VCCS, CCVS, CCCS

+ Resistors, capacitors, inductors, transformers

+ Voltmeter, amperemeter, ohmmeter

+ DC motor

+ Potentiometer, lamp

+ Switches, SPST, SPDT

+ Push buttons, NO, NC

+ Diodes, Zener diodes, light emitting diodes (LED)

+ MOS transistors (MOSFET)

+ Bipolar junction transistors (BJT)

+ Ideal operational amplifier (opamp)

+ Digital logic gates, AND, OR, NOT, NAND, NOR, XOR, XNOR

+ Relay

+ 555 timer

+ Counter

+ 7-segment display and decoder

Basic Commands in EveryCircuit

To begin, let's look at some of the basic commands that are available to EveryCircuit. The most important toolbar in EveryCircuit is the examples command. Here you can search through the EveryCircuit library to find designs that are similar to yours. You can also use the search bar in this window to look up certain types of circuits. with understanding concepts covered in all electronic courses you will use.

This program uses what looks like a digital version of a "breadboard". It has a built in grid that will only let you place electrical components in certain nodes. Let's now look at the electrical components we will have access to while using EveryCircuit. Some of these components may look familiar and others may not.

To place a component onto the "breadboard" we simply left click the component, which we desire. It will then drop down into the "breadboard"! Now that we know how to get an element onto our "breadboard" we can look at modifying that element by rotating that element, deleting the component, undoing our last action, flipping the component or adjusting the components characteristics (ie. Resistance, Capacitance). To do this we must simply left click the component when it is on the breadboard. The graphics below will then appear in the bottom left hand corner of the screen:Rotating a component, Deleting a component, Undoing the previous action, Flipping the component(for BJT's and MOSFET's) and Adjusting a components characteristics (i.e or in BJT, or VT0 in MOSFET). Let's Quickly go over how to change component values in, EveryCircuit so we are ready to perform experiments within the application! As shown below the wrench can be found from the bottom left hand corner of the screen.

Once you press the wrench shaped button, a dial will appear on the right hand side of the screen. Rotate the dial in the appropriate direction to increase or decrease the resistance value of the resistor. You can make fine adjustments with the + and - signs.

Lastly let's look at the "Play Button" in EveryCircuit. The play button is what allows us to run transient or AC analysis of the circuits we build in EveryCircuit. Pressing this button animates ones circuit and displays current moving as individual charges. We can also click on specific nodes in the circuit, the waveform for that specific node compared to ground will be shown on the top on your screen. By viewing the nodal waveforms we are able to find a relationship for Vout=Vin, which becomes of utmost importance as we continue into the study of Op-Amps and transistors.