awesome-electronics

en/Closed) -> Vacuum Tube Transistor -> Solid-state [MOSFET,]] Transistor, From the Ngspice User's Manual https://ngspice.sourceforge.io/docs/ngspice-37-manual.pdf : > Ngspice is a general-purpose circuit simulation program for nonlinear and linear analyses.* > Circuits may contain resistors, capacitors, inductors, mutual inductors, independent or dependent voltage and current sources, loss-less and lossy transmission lines, switches, uniform distributed RC lines, and the five most common semiconductor devices: diodes, BJTs, JFETs, MESFETs, and MOSFETs. > [...] Ngspice has built-in models for the semiconductor devices, and the user need specify only the pertinent model parameter values. [...] New devices can be added to ngspice by several means: behavioral B-, E- or G-sources, the XSPICE code-model interface for C-like device coding, and the ADMS interface based on Verilog-A and XML. Turing completeness: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_completeness : > In colloquial usage, the terms "Turing-complete" and "Turing-equivalent" are used to mean that any real-world general-purpose computer or computer language can approximately simulate the computational aspects of any other real-world general-purpose computer or computer language. In real life this leads to the practical concepts of computing virtualization and emulation. [citation needed] > Real computers constructed so far can be functionally analyzed like a single-tape Turing machine (the "tape" corresponding to their memory); thus the associated mathematics can apply by abstracting their operation far enough. However, real computers have limited physical resources, so they are only linear bounded automaton complete. In contrast, a universal computer is defined as a device with a Turing-complete instruction set, infinite memory, and infinite available time. Church–Turing thesis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church%E2%80%93Turing_thesis ... Lamda calculus (Church): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda_calculus HDL: Hardware Description Language > Examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_description_language#... HVL: Hardware Verification Language: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_verification_language awesome-electronics > Free EDA Packages: https://github.com/kitspace/awesome-electronics#free-eda-pac... https://github.com/TM90/awesome-hwd-tools EDA: Electronic Design Automation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_design_automation

help: https://mightyohm.com/blog/2011/04/soldering-is-easy-comic-b.... More links like this can be found on our list: https://github.com/kitspace/awesome-electronics/ The other option is to have a manufacturer solder it for you (e.g. Aisler and JLCPCB will do this for you), but if you have no experience building and debugging electronics I wouldn't recommend it (since it can get expensive and you can easily end up with a non-functioning device).