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Nikhil Garg

05/10/2022, 12:21 PM
Which software do designers and researcher use to create circuit diagrams for datasheet/publication? I used Cadence for the entire flow. But the schematics is not good for publication. Is there any tool take Cadence schematics and convert it to LTSpice schematics? Because I can find some package that converts LTspice schematics to TeX figures. I feel stuck.. any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Harald Pretl

05/10/2022, 1:06 PM
@User For optimum results I use
circdia
which is based on
TikZ
. You need to put in the effort, though, takes longer than any drawing solution. https://github.com/hpretl/iic-circdia
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Nikhil Garg

05/10/2022, 2:09 PM
Thanks for your answer. In past I have used LaTeX for creating document but not figures. Do we have to write coordinates of wires in code or there is some GUI assistance as well?
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Harald Pretl

05/10/2022, 2:27 PM
@User No GUI, unfortunately.
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Eric Keiter

05/10/2022, 10:11 PM
For smaller schematics in LaTeX documents, I’ve been really happy with the circuit macros package. https://ece.uwaterloo.ca/~aplevich/Circuit_macros/
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Nikhil Garg

05/12/2022, 10:49 AM
Thanks @User