AICTE Published Free Open Source

Software List instead of Commercial

Software for Academics

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

Similar
Commercial
Open Download Link License Used where
Software
source

Engineering
(Electrical,
Mechanical,
Civil,
Electronics,
http://www.scilab.org/products/scilab/d Embedded
MATLAB Scilab CeCILL
ownload systems,
Chemical),
Science
(Physics,
Mathematics
)
Mathematics
http://maxima.sourceforge.net/downloa
Mathematica Maxima GPL ,
d.html
Engineering

Cadence pSpice ngspice http://ngspice.sourceforge.net/downloa BSD Engineering

d.html (Electrical,
Electronics,
Embedded
 systems)
Microsoft Office Open officehttp://download.openoffice.org/ LGPL All branches
Microsoft Office LaTeX http://www.latexproject.org/ftp.html LPPL All branches
Precise
arithmetic,
Mathematica/Map http://www.sagemath.org/download.ht
Sage GPL algebra,
le ml
symbolic
computation
Microsoft GNU/Linu http://www.gnu.org/software/software.
GPL All branches
Windows x html
Engineering
(Introductor
Turbo C GCC http://gcc.gnu.org/releases.html GPL y Computing
all
branches)

BRL- Engineeri
Pro/E http://brlcad.org/d/download BSD
CAD ng (CAD)
Engineeri
ng
http://www.nasm.us/pub/nasm/releasebuilds
NASM, (Electroni
MASM BSD, BSD
FASM cs,
http://flatassembler.net/download.php
Computer
Science)
Drawing
Xmgrace
MS the
, http://sourceforge.net/projects/graceplot/ BSD, GPL,
OFFICE figures,
XFIG, http://xfig.org/art17.html Own license
Plotting plots,
GNUPL http://www.gnuplot.info/download.html (but free)
tools flow
OT
diagrams
Assemble
r,
Code Compilers
composer for micro
Studio, GNU controller
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/binutils/ GPL
IAR Binutils s and
Workben DSP
ch Processor
s (MSP,
VC33 etc)

VxWOR RTLinux http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux GPL, Real-time

 operating
GPL/LGPL System for
HOWTO/RTLinuxHOWTO.html
, (kernel and Desktop
KS
RTAI user space and
https://www.rtai.org/
respectively), Embedded
Systems
GCC
SDCC
KEIL compiler
SDCC http://sdcc.sourceforge.net/index.php#Download GPL
8051 for
8051
controlers
synopsis-
CosmosS
E,
http://opencircuitdesign.com/xcircuit/download.h schematic
Mentor- Xcircuit GPL
tml design
Icstudio,
Cadence-
Virtuoso
Mentor- Used for
ICstation, http://opencircuitdesign.com/magic/download.ht chip
Magic BSD
Cadence- ml Layout
Virtuoso design

http://ghdl.free.fr/download.html VHDL
Modelsim ghdl, freehdl GPL
http://freehdl.seul.org/ compiler
Numerical
http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/downlo
Matlab Octave GPL Computati
ad.html
on
http://kicad.sourceforge.net/wiki/Download CAD
AutoCad KiCad, GPL
s system
FreeCad http://sourceforge.net/projects/freecad/
S-Plus R http://cran.rproject.org/bin/ GPL Statistics
Operating Operating
GNU/LINUX http://www.bosslinux.in/ GPL
System System