Image based Circuit Simulation

In today´s world of digitization time complexity, high accuracy and user friendly interfaces are key issues of any successful software system. A digitized image of any data or model drawn on paper is always useful in terms of content retrieval and analysis. This paper presents a new approach for circuit simulation named as Image based Circuit Simulation (ICS). ICS is a technique to convert sketched circuits into their digitized format and also generate a net-list for their analysis. Net-list is a kind of list based representation of circuits containing details of its components and their connections. Our algorithm allows a user generated image of an electric circuit to be simulated using open source simulation tools. Though the approach is applicable in various fields of engineering, we have concentrated its usage pertaining to electric circuit simulation.