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