Brandon's Semiconductor Simulator

135 dominikh 13 5/10/2025, 12:37:48 AM brandonli.net ↗

Comments (13)

em3rgent0rdr · 7h ago
When spice simulation isn't deep enough... Very educational to show how circuit elements work "under the hood"...for example the LC example doesn't use an L element and a C element as building blocks, but rather it is the two metal plates in close contact which form the bulk of the circuit's capacitance and it is the loop of metal itself which form the inductance.
paulgerhardt · 4h ago
Fun. I am reminded of the long forgotten Zachtronics semiconductor game “KOHCTPYKTOP: Engineer of the People” [1]

[1] https://www.zachtronics.com/kohctpyktop-engineer-of-the-peop...

djmips · 2h ago
Did you know that archive supports old Flash games like this via the Ruffle Flash emulator?

https://web.archive.org/web/20160305205215/http://www.zachtr...

hteaf · 2h ago
cefFlashbrowser can do it better
ryani · 2h ago
This is also available (with an included Flash emulator, so playable on modern machines) in Zach's free retrospective "Zach-like" [1]

[1] https://store.steampowered.com/app/1098840/ZACHLIKE/

gfody · 6h ago
Sebastian Lague has been making one of these and youtubing it, the videos are great here's the latest one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGkuRp5HfH8
gblargg · 5h ago
Note that these are at very different levels of detail. Lague's is at the digital logic level, while Brandon's is some level around atoms/electrons.
petermcneeley · 5h ago
Amazing work feels very similar to Paul Falstad page https://www.falstad.com/emstatic/index.html.

This really needs a WebGPU port. Multigrid on a GPU is moderately easy.

1d22a · 4h ago
The similarity is likely not a coincidence!

> (c) Brandon Li, 2025. Ported to Javascript with the help of Paul Falstad.

stunningllama · 7m ago
Brandon here. I was very much inspired by Falstad's applets. I had him take a look at my simulation and he generously offered to make a JS port.
spicybright · 4h ago
The UI is rough but this is very impressive!
mhh__ · 4h ago
Really sexy
bdbenton5255 · 3h ago
Very clean, educational and informative. Well done, from one Brandon to another!