| Details of the Open Source Software, URL links and their Utilities | ||||
| Commercial Software | Similar Open source | License | Used where | Download Link |
| MATLAB | Scilab | CeCILL | Engineering (Electrical, Mechanical, Civil, Electronics, Embedded systems, Chemical), Science (Physics, Mathematics) | http://www.scilab.org/products/scilab/download |
| Mathematica | Maxima | GPL | Mathematics, Engineering | http://maxima.sourceforge.net/download.html |
| Cadence pSpice | ngspice | BSD | Engineering (Electrical, Electronics, Embedded systems) | http://ngspice.sourceforge.net/download.html |
| Microsoft Office | Open office | LGPL | All branches | http://download.openoffice.org/ |
| Microsoft Office | LaTeX | LPPL | All branches | http://www.latex‐project.org/ftp.html |
| Mathematica/Maple | Sage | GPL | Precise arithmetic, algebra, symbolic computation | http://www.sagemath.org/download.html |
| Microsoft Windows | GNU/Linux | GPL | All branches | http://www.gnu.org/software/software.html |
| Turbo C | GCC | GPL | Engineering (Introductory Computing – all branches) |
http://gcc.gnu.org/releases.html |
| Pro/E | BRL-CAD | BSD | Engineering (CAD) | http://brlcad.org/d/download |
| MASM | NASM, FASM | BSD, BSD | Engineering (Electronics, Computer Science) | http://www.nasm.us/pub/nasm/releasebuilds http://flatassembler.net/download.php |
| MS OFFICE Plotting tools | Xmgrace, XFIG, GNUPLOT | BSD, GPL, Own license (but free) |
Drawing the figures, plots, flow diagrams | http://sourceforge.net/projects/graceplot/ http://xfig.org/art17.html http://www.gnuplot.info/download.html |
| Code composer Studio, IAR Workbench | GNU Binutils |
GPL | Assembler, Compilers for micro controllers and DSP Processors (MSP, VC33 etc) | http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/binutils/ |
| VxWORKS | RTLinux, RTAI | GPL, GPL/LGPL (kernel and user space respectively), |
Real-time operating System for Desktop and Embedded Systems | http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux‐HOWTO/RTLinux‐ HOWTO.html https://www.rtai.org/ |
| KEIL 8051 | SDCC | GPL | GCC SDCC compiler for 8051 controlers | http://sdcc.sourceforge.net/index.php#Download |
| synopsis-CosmosSE, Mentor-Icstudio, Cadence-Virtuoso | Xcircuit | GPL | schematic design | http://opencircuitdesign.com/xcircuit/download.html |
| Mentor-ICstation, Cadence-Virtuoso | Magic | BSD | Used for chip Layout design | http://opencircuitdesign.com/magic/download.html |
| Modelsim | ghdl, freehdl | GPL | VHDL compiler | http://ghdl.free.fr/download.html http://freehdl.seul.org/ |
| Matlab | Octave | GPL | Numerical Computation | http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/download.html |
| AutoCad | KiCad, | GPL | CAD system | http://kicad.sourceforge.net/wiki/Downloads |
