Revision as of 17:55, 25 November 2009

Required Software Matrix

Class	Proprietary Software	VM	WINE	Native Linux Version	Equivalent FOSS	Notes
Multiple	DyKnow	yes	Garbage	no	Ubiquitous Presenter (Free for academic use)	Get through installation under WINE by installing .NET yourself.
Multiple	MATLAB	yes	Gold	yes	FreeMat (stale?), Octave (console), Scilab (slightly different syntax but comes with a conversion script), Sage (?)	Parallelize number crunching using the CVL. ENGE 1104 requires functions not in Octave/FreeMat.
Multiple	Visual C++ 2008 (Express)	yes	Garbage	no	GCC + GDB + Valgrind, KDevelop
BIT 2406	Microsoft Excel 2007 (Solver)	yes	Gold	no	Gnumeric (OpenOffice.org Calc does not generate reports)	Absolute values ( such as "1" or "0") can not be used for constraints. Multiple cell ranges can not be manipulated at once, making Gnumeric unusable for transshipment problems and goal programming. Cell ranges can only be compared to ranges of equal length and width in constraints. Nonlinear programming is not yet possible. Reports are dated in UTC.
BIT 2406	Microsoft Excel 2007 (Analysis Toolpak)	yes	Gold	no	Gnumeric
ECE 2074	PSpice	yes	Silver	no	Qucs	You can probably replace the Tront PSpice book with the Qucs workbook.
ECE 2504	LogicWorks	yes	Gold	no	Qucs
ECE 2504	MPLAB	yes	Gold	no	Piklab
ECE 2534	Xilinx tools (parts GPL'd)	sometimes quirky		yes		Use 9.x natively with libusb-driver.
ECE 3504	WinCupl		Gold	no		Needs MFC40.dll: wget http://activex.microsoft.com/controls/vc/mfc40.cab cabextract mfc40.cab wine mfc40.exe
ENGE 1104	CodeWarrior	no	Bronze	yes

Example LaTeX Chem Lab Report - An example lab report for CHEM 1045 written in LaTeX.

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