Oregano is a graphical software application for schematic capture and simulation of electrical circuits. The actual simulation is performed by the ngspice

Ngspice

Ngspice is a mixed-level/mixed-signal circuit simulator born around 1999 as a "student project" in the Electronics Engineering Department of University of Roma "La Sapienza" with the integration of BSIMSOI model into Spice3f5...

 or Gnucap engines. It is similar to gEDA

GEDA

The term gEDA refers to two things:# A set of software applications used for electronic design released under the GPL. As such, gEDA is an ECAD or EDA application suite. gEDA is mostly oriented towards printed circuit board design...

 and KTechlab

KTechLab

KTechlab is an Open Source IDE for electronic and PIC microcontroller circuit design and simulation. Featuring an extensive circuit designer with autoroutingand simulation of all common electronic components and logic elements....

. It makes use of GNOME

GNOME

GNOME is a desktop environment and graphical user interface that runs on top of a computer operating system. It is composed entirely of free and open source software...

 technology and is meant to run on open source Unix

Unix

Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna...

 environments like Linux

Linux

Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...

 or FreeBSD

FreeBSD

FreeBSD is a free Unix-like operating system descended from AT&T UNIX via BSD UNIX. Although for legal reasons FreeBSD cannot be called “UNIX”, as the direct descendant of BSD UNIX , FreeBSD’s internals and system APIs are UNIX-compliant...

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Oregano is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL. Version 0.60.0 was released on September, 30th 2006.

History

Oregano was first developed by Richard Hult, who worked on it until 2002. Most of the design ideas and a lot of the current code are still his. He released various versions, up to version 0.23. All of them were based on the Spice engine, and supported only the old GNOME libraries.

When Richard Hult stated that he wouldn't be able to continue developing the software, Ricardo Markiewicz and Andrés de Barbará continued his work, releasing a renewed Oregano, with support for the latest graphical libraries and adding support for the Gnucap engine, among other things.

External links

Oregano home(git)
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Dependencies: GNOME

GNOME

GNOME is a desktop environment and graphical user interface that runs on top of a computer operating system. It is composed entirely of free and open source software...

, Ngspice

Ngspice

Ngspice is a mixed-level/mixed-signal circuit simulator born around 1999 as a "student project" in the Electronics Engineering Department of University of Roma "La Sapienza" with the integration of BSIMSOI model into Spice3f5...

 or GnuCap

Related Projects: gEDA

GEDA

The term gEDA refers to two things:# A set of software applications used for electronic design released under the GPL. As such, gEDA is an ECAD or EDA application suite. gEDA is mostly oriented towards printed circuit board design...

, Qucs, KTechLab

KTechLab

KTechlab is an Open Source IDE for electronic and PIC microcontroller circuit design and simulation. Featuring an extensive circuit designer with autoroutingand simulation of all common electronic components and logic elements....