Electrical Circuit Analysis in CAD Software Tool

The electrical circuit analysis is performed in Electronic Design Automation (EDA) software tools specifically developed for that purpose. Recently, CAD tools have appeared that, in addition to their primary purpose, offer the circuit analysis as an additional option. The advantage of using CAD tools for such purposes is supplementing already acquired skills in 2D and 3D drawing and modeling in a known and proven user interface. This integration enables a holistic approach to engineering tasks, and from a teaching perspective, such incremental addition of skills is a more time-efficient way of transferring knowledge because students do not have to learn a new user interface of EDA tools. The paper presents a comparison of the circuit analysis possibilities in CAD with EDA tools on existing teaching examples of the course Personal computers in electrical engineering at the undergraduate study of Electrical engineering at the Zagreb University of Applied Sciences.