CircuiTikZ Applications

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Several open source applications for the CircuiTikZ project have been developed at the Instititue for Electronics Engineering in the course of several research projects. These helpful applications extend the well-known CircuiTikZ project and offer a simplified and accelerated way of drawing circuits in TikZ and are therefore perfectly suited for use in LaTeX and TeX-based documents.

CircuiCanva

CircuiCanva is a browser-based web application that serves as a GUI for CircuiTikZ. This JavaScript-based, cross-platform browser application enables the drawing of circuits and supports all current CircuiTikZ components. The project consists of the GUI itself and the SymbolConvert tool, which allows new components to be added to the GUI as CircuiTikZ introduces new components. The current official version can be found here. Further information, help and information on contributing to the overall project can be found on the project page.

ablToTikZ

ablToTikZ (“ADS Board Link to TikZ”) is a converter tool that converts circuit diagrams already designed in your simulation or circuit design tool into CircuiTikZ. The aim is to avoid redrawing the circuit for documentation. It supports any EDA tool that allows XML export (such as Cadence Allegro, Cadence Virtuoso, Altium, etc.) and can be run as a simple command line tool.