openEMS (Electromagnetic Field Solver)

Category

FPGA / HDL / VLSI / PCB

Provider

openEMS

Type

course

Level

build

Topic

FPGA / HDL / VLSI / PCB

Track

FPGA / HDL / VLSI / PCB

Section

Open Data Directory

Format

n/a

Status

publishable

Commercial

unknown

Featured

no

Fast start

no

Sequence

n/a

Priority

n/a

Primary source

learning_paths

Sources

learning_paths, website_existing

ID

79ad4ea4014e68ea

Qucs-S (Quite Universal Circuit Simulator)

Qucs-S

Open circuit simulation tooling; complements ngspice + PySpice workflows.

CircuitVerse (Interactive circuits)

CircuitVerse

Practice digital logic and circuit intuition with an interactive simulator.

gprMax

gprMax (GitHub)

FDTD EM simulation for RF/microwave wave propagation and antenna-style problems.

KiCad Documentation

curated

Open-source EDA for schematics and PCB layout.

ngspice Documentation

ngspice

SPICE simulation fundamentals for circuits, analog design, and verification.

FOSSi Foundation

FOSSi

Open-source silicon + open EDA ecosystem; learn the tooling and community landscape.

Yosys Open SYnthesis Suite

YosysHQ

Open-source synthesis to learn HDL flows and digital design toolchains.

GNU Radio + scikit-rf + openEMS bundle

GNU Radio / scikit-rf / openEMS

Covers SDR workflows, RF analysis, and electromagnetic simulation in the open stack.

Verilator

Verilator

High-performance Verilog/SystemVerilog simulator for fast testing and CI.

OpenROAD

The OpenROAD Project

End-to-end open-source RTL-to-GDS toolchain (advanced VLSI contribution path).

MIT 6.004 / Computation Structures

MIT

Bridges digital logic, computer architecture, performance, and systems reasoning.

MIT OCW Optics

MIT

High-value start for photonics, imaging, and wave optics.