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1 Below given are a list of software which we have identified as a |
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2 replacement for the proprietary software packages listed in column 1. |
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5 | Commercial Software | FOSS Equivalent | License | Used where | |
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7 | MATLAB | Scilab | CeCILL | Engineering (Electrical, Mechanical, Civil, Electronics, Embedded systems, Chemical), Science (Physics, Mathematics) | |
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8 | Matlab | Octave | GPL | Numerical Computation | |
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9 | AutoCad | KiCad, FreeCad | GPL | CAD system | |
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10 | Mathematica / Maple | Sage | GPL | Precise arithmetic, algebra, symbolic computation | |
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11 | Mathematica | Maxima | GPL | Mathematics, Engineering | |
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12 | Turbo C | GCC | GPL | Engineering (Introductory Computing - all branches) | |
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13 | Microsoft Office | Open office | LGPL | All branches | |
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14 | Microsoft Office | LaTeX | LPPL | All branches | |
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15 | MS OFFICE Plotting tools | Xmgrace, XFIG, GNUPLOT | BSD, GPL, Own license (but free) | Drawing the figures, plots, flow diagrams | |
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16 | Cadence pSpice | ngspice | BSD | Engineering (Electrical, Electronics, Embedded systems) | |
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17 | Pro/E | BRL-CAD | BSD | Engineering (CAD) | |
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18 | MASM | NASM, FASM | BSD, BSD | Engineering (Electronics, Computer Science) | |
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19 | Code composer Studio, IAR Workbench | GNU Binutils | GPL | Assembler, Compilers for micro controllers and DSP Processors (MSP, VC33 etc) | |
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20 | VxWORKS | RTLinux, RTAI | GPL, GPL/LGPL (kernel and user space respectively), | Real-time operating System for Desktop and Embedded Systems | |
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21 | KEIL 8051 | SDCC | GPL | GCC SDCC compiler for 8051 controlers | |
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22 | synopsis-CosmosSE, Mentor-Icstudio, Cadence-Virtuoso | Xcircuit | GPL | schematic design | |
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23 | Mentor-ICstation, Cadence-Virtuoso | Magic | BSD | Used for chip Layout design | |
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24 | Modelsim | ghdl, freehdl | GPL | VHDL compiler | |
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25 | S-Plus | R | GPL | Statistics | |
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26 | Microsoft Windows | GNU/Linux | GPL | All branches | |
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