Ghani Lawal- I originally decided to use KiCad over CircuitMaker for its ability to simulate circuits. However:
- Circuits with IC's take a long time to simulate, even if it is quite simple
- When their is feedback and/or if the IC contains multiple circuit elements (e.g. LM324 IC has 4 op amps) the correctness and ability to even simulate at all is in question
- Already made the all of the active filters in KiCad, remaking them in CircuitMaker would take a really long time since the topology of each filter is slightly different and their values are very different
- The only other large sub-circuit is the LED driver, the driver circuit for each frequency spectrum is exactly the same so I can make them once and copy and paste for the rest
KiCad vs CircuitMaker
A project log for Music Spectrum and dB Visualizer
Receive input from a 3.5mm jack, divides the music into 7 frequency bands, shows the loudness of each frequency band in DB using LEDS.
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