Apps useful for Electronics Engineers
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Here is an update of an original list by Colin Holland of the apps that might be useful for electronics engineers.
If you have any suggestions please email the editors.
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Android |
The Dev Kits application from Electropages keeps you up to date with the latest development kits from manufacturers and distributors. |
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Agilent PCB Trace Impedance Calculator |
iPhone |
The Agilent Printed Circuit Board (PCB) Trace Impedance Calculator. This calculator computes the characteristic impedance and sizes of typical printed circuit board trace geometries. |
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Agilent MicroWave Calculator |
iPhone |
The Agilent MicroWave Calculator consists of a Directivity Error Calculator, a Mismatch Error Limit Calculator, and a Ratio-to-dB Calculator. For you old-timers, this is the 21st century's version of the old “Reflectometer” slide rule calculator |
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Agilent’s Engineering Calculator (EC) Application |
iPhone |
This interactive application allows users to input the required data and results are shown in the form of graphs, tables, animations or other meaningful representation. Available applications include Basic electrical equations. resistor color coding calculator, and capacitance value calculator. |
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ASCII Chars |
Android |
A simple reference app, containing a scrollable table of the first 127 ASCII characters, and their decimal and hex values. |
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AsciiTable |
Android |
ASCII Table, with extended ASCII (0x80-0xFF) of charset. |
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Digikey |
iPhone |
The design engineer’s passkey to one of the world’s largest inventories of in-stock electronic components, |
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EE Times Europe |
iPad |
Provides electronics industry news for electronics engineers and engineering manager. |
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ElectroDroid |
Android |
A simple and powerful collection of electronics tools and reference; |
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ELcalcV |
Android |
For calculating voltage drop in cables. Pro version also available. |
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Electrical ToolKit |
iPhone, iPod touch, iPad. |
This app is simple to use and smart enough to recalculate circuit values when user edits any input data.. |
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Electronics ToolKit |
iPhone, iPod touch, iPad. |
For 555 timers, LED Resitor values, LEDs in Series and Logic gates |
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Formula Pro: |
iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad |
Over 600 formulas needed for Engineering, Optics, Thermodynamics, Electronics and much more |
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HP 15C Scientific Calculator |
iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. |
This provides an exact replica of the original layout, functions, algorithms and calculation sequences you trusted to help you through college and your career. |
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iCircuit |
iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, Mac OS X |
Electronic circuit editor and simulator |
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iDVM app |
iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch |
The iDVM digital multimeter from Redfish Instruments Inc. wirelessly connects to an iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch via an ad hoc wireless network allowing users to acquire, visualize, and share electrical measurement data on their Apple devices. |
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LED resist |
iPhone |
This utility calculates the resistor that is needed for driving an LED. You just need to supply the Input Voltage, LED Voltage, LED Ampere and the amount of LED's in series. |
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Magnify, |
Android |
Turn your phone into a digital magnifying glass with built-in flashlight. Could help identify small features on the PCB without carrying around a loupe |
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NXP |
Android |
For NXP website – sometimes faster than going through a browser |
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NXP RF Calc |
Android |
The RF Calculator app aims at making RF engineers’ life easier. It allows designers to settle a lot of common RF related calculations anywhere without keeping formulae in mind. |
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I think they have added it here…
http://www.electricaltechnology.org/2014/01/must-have-android-apps-for-electrical-electronics-engineers.html
Admin must update the above article.
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