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==Required Proprietary Software==
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==Courses==
This is a list of proprietary software required for classes.
 
 
 
 
 
 
{| class='wikitable'
 
{| class='wikitable'
 
|-
 
|-
 
! Course
 
! Course
! Proprietary Software
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! Software
! VM
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! Semesters
! WINE
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! Professors
! Native Linux Version
 
! Equivalent FOSS
 
 
! Notes
 
! Notes
 
|-
 
|-
 
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| [[gp:BIT 2406|BIT 2406 - Quantitative Methods]]
 
+
| Microsoft Excel 2007 (Solver, Analysis Toolpack)
| [[gp:ENGE 1024 Engineering Exploration|ENGE 1024 Engineering Exploration]]
+
| ?
| rowspan="3" | [[DyKnow]]
+
| ?
| rowspan="3" | Yes
+
|
| rowspan="3" style="background: rgb(154, 63, 32)" | Garbage
+
|-
| rowspan="3" | No
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| [[gp:COMM 2004|COMM 2004 - Public Speaking]]
| rowspan="3" | [https://up.ucsd.edu/ Ubiquitous Presenter] (Free for academic use), completely free version a work in progress
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| Microsoft Powerpoint
| rowspan="3" | Get through installation by deleting the dependency entries.
+
| ??
 +
| ??
 +
|
 +
|-
 +
| [[gp:CS 4984|CS 4984 - Intro to Cyber Security]]
 +
| VMware
 +
| ??
 +
| ??
 +
| VMware images provided with assignments but can be converted.
 +
|-
 +
| [[gp:CEE 4024|CEE 4024]]
 +
| Microsoft Project
 +
| ??
 +
| ??
 +
| Planner lacks resource levelling or constraints
 +
|-
 +
| CEE (multiple)
 +
| Autodesk family
 +
| Many
 +
| Many
 +
|
 +
|-
 +
| [[gp:ECE 1574|ECE 2574]]
 +
| Microsoft Visual C++
 +
|  
 +
|  
 +
|  
 +
|-
 +
| [[gp:ECE 2074|ECE 2074 - Circuit Analysis]]
 +
| Zeitnitz Soundcard Oscilloscope
 +
| Prior to Fall 2012
 +
| All
 +
|
 +
|-
 +
| [[gp:ECE 2074 | ECE 2074 - Circuit Analysis]]
 +
| Velleman PCSGU250 / PCLab
 +
| Fall 2012 - present
 +
| All
 +
|
 +
|-
 +
| [[gp:ECE 2504|ECE 2504 - Intro to CpE]]
 +
| LogicWorks
 +
| Spring 2012
 +
| KL Cooper
 +
| Substitutes not accepted.
 +
|-
 +
| [[gp:ECE 2534|ECE 2534 - Microcontroller Programming and Interfacing]]
 +
| MPLAB X
 +
| All
 +
| All
 +
|
 +
|-
 +
| [[gp:ECE 2534|ECE 2534 - Microcontroller Programming and Interfacing]]
 +
| Xilinx tools
 +
| Ending in Spring 2012 (??)
 +
| All
 +
|
 +
|-
 +
| [[gp:ECE 2574|ECE 2574]]
 +
| Microsoft Visual C++
 +
|
 +
|
 +
|
 +
|-
 +
| [[gp:ECE 3504|ECE 3504 - Digital Design 1]]
 +
| WinCupl
 +
| Spring 2013 (?)
 +
| Thweatt
 +
| Class has been superceded by ECE 3544, which does not require WinCupl
 +
|-
 +
| [[gp:ECE 4560|ECE 4560 - Computer and Network Security Fundamentals]]
 +
| Virtualbox
 +
| Spring 2014
 +
| Marchany
 +
| Other hypervisors work too.
 
|-
 
|-
| [[gp:ENGE 1104 Exploration of Digital Future|ENGE 1104 Exploration of Digital Future]]
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| [[gp:ECE 4564|ECE 4564 - Network Applications]]
 +
| MS Visual C# + .NET
 +
| Unknown
 +
| Unknown
 +
| No longer used.
 
|-
 
|-
| Some ECE
+
| [[gp:ECE 4564|ECE 4564 - Network Applications]]
 +
| Python
 +
| Fall 2014
 +
| Plymale
 +
| Raspberry Pis running Raspbian are used as the platform.
 
|-
 
|-
 
 
 
| [[gp:ENGE 1024 Engineering Exploration|ENGE 1024 Engineering Exploration]]
 
| [[gp:ENGE 1024 Engineering Exploration|ENGE 1024 Engineering Exploration]]
| rowspan="2" | [[w:LabVIEW|LabVIEW]]
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| [[DyKnow]], [[LabView]]
| rowspan="2" |
+
| Fall 2011
| rowspan="2" |
+
| All
| rowspan="2" | Yes
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| DyKnow required for attendance
| rowspan="2" |
 
| rowspan="2" |
 
 
|-
 
|-
 
| [[gp:ENGE 1104 Exploration of Digital Future|ENGE 1104 Exploration of Digital Future]]
 
| [[gp:ENGE 1104 Exploration of Digital Future|ENGE 1104 Exploration of Digital Future]]
 +
| [[LabView]], [[MATLAB]]
 +
| Spring 2012
 +
| All
 +
| MATLAB functions not found in Octave required
 
|-
 
|-
 +
|[[gp:MUS 1104|MUS 1104 - Music Appreciation]] (online)
 +
| Adobe Flash Player, Sibelius Scorch
 +
| All
 +
| All
 +
|
 +
|}
  
 
+
==Software==
| [[gp:ENGE 1024 Engineering Exploration|ENGE 1024 Engineering Exploration]]
+
{| class='wikitable'
| rowspan="3" | [[w:MATLAB|MATLAB]]
+
|-
| rowspan="3" | Yes
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! Software
| rowspan="3" style="background: gold" | [http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=49 Gold]
+
! License
| rowspan="3" | Yes
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! WINE?
| rowspan="3" | [[QtOctave]], [http://freemat.sourceforge.net/ FreeMat] (stale?), [http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ Octave] (console), [http://www.scilab.org/ Scilab] (not syntax-compatible), [http://sagemath.org/ Sage]
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! VM?
| rowspan="3" | [http://computing.ece.vt.edu/wiki/Matlab#Using_the_MPI_parallel_toolbox Parallelize number crunching] using the [http://computing.ece.vt.edu/wiki/Main_Page CVL]. ENGE 1104 requires functions not in Octave/FreeMat.
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! Native Linux?
 +
! Equivalent FOSS
 +
! Notes
 +
|-
 +
| [[MATLAB]]
 +
| style="background: LightCoral" | Proprietary
 +
| style="background: gold" | [http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=49 Gold]
 +
| style="background: LightGreen" | Yes
 +
| style="background: LightGreen" | Yes
 +
| [[QtOctave]], [http://freemat.sourceforge.net/ FreeMat] (stale?), [http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ Octave] (console), [http://www.scilab.org/ Scilab] (not syntax-compatible), [http://sagemath.org/ Sage]
 +
| [http://computing.ece.vt.edu/wiki/Matlab#Using_the_MPI_parallel_toolbox Parallelize number crunching] using the [http://computing.ece.vt.edu/wiki/Main_Page CVL]
 
|-
 
|-
| [[gp:ENGE 1104 Exploration of Digital Future|ENGE 1104 Exploration of Digital Future]]
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| [[DyKnow]]
 +
| style="background: LightCoral" | Proprietary
 +
| style="background: LightCoral" | Garbage
 +
| style="background: LightGreen" | Yes
 +
| style="background: LightCoral" | No
 +
| [https://up.ucsd.edu/ Ubiquitous Presenter] (Free for academic use), completely free version a work in progress
 +
| Contains malware.
 
|-
 
|-
| Some ECE
+
| [[LabView]]
 +
| style="background: LightCoral" | Proprietary
 +
|
 +
| style="background: LightGreen" | Yes
 +
| style="background: LightGreen" | Yes
 +
|
 +
|
 
|-
 
|-
 
+
| [http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/default.mspx Microsoft Visual C++]]
 
+
| style="background: LightCoral" | Proprietary
| Some ECE
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| style="background: LightCoral" | [http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=11210 Garbage]
| [http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/default.mspx MS Visual C++] ([http://www.microsoft.com/express/vc/ Express])
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| style="background: LightGreen" | Yes
| yes
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| style="background: LightCoral" | No
| style="background: rgb(154, 63, 32)" | [http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=11210 Garbage]
 
| no
 
 
| [http://gcc.gnu.org/ GCC] + [http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/ GDB] + [http://valgrind.org/ Valgrind], [http://www.kdevelop.org/ KDevelop], [http://www.eclipse.org/cdt/ eclipse-cdt]
 
| [http://gcc.gnu.org/ GCC] + [http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/ GDB] + [http://valgrind.org/ Valgrind], [http://www.kdevelop.org/ KDevelop], [http://www.eclipse.org/cdt/ eclipse-cdt]
|  
+
|
 
|-
 
|-
 
+
| Microsoft Excel 2007
 
+
| style="background: LightCoral" | Proprietary
| [[gp:BIT 2406 Quantitative Methods|BIT 2406 Quantitative Methods]]
+
| style="background: gold" | [http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=12812 Gold]
| Microsoft Excel 2007 (Solver)
+
| style="background: LightGreen" | Yes
| yes
+
| style="background: LightCoral" | No
| style="background: gold" | [http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=12812 Gold]
+
| [http://projects.gnome.org/gnumeric/ Gnumeric]
| no
 
| [http://projects.gnome.org/gnumeric/ Gnumeric] ([[LibreOffice]] Impress does not generate reports)
 
 
| Absolute values ( such as "1" or "0") can not be used for
 
| Absolute values ( such as "1" or "0") can not be used for
 
constraints. Multiple cell ranges can not be manipulated at once,
 
constraints. Multiple cell ranges can not be manipulated at once,
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Reports are dated in UTC.
 
Reports are dated in UTC.
 
|-
 
|-
 
 
| [[gp:BIT 2406 Quantitative Methods|BIT 2406 Quantitative Methods]]
 
| Microsoft Excel 2007 (Analysis Toolpack)
 
| Yes
 
| style="background: gold" | [http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=12812 Gold]
 
| No
 
| [http://projects.gnome.org/gnumeric/ Gnumeric]
 
|
 
|-
 
 
 
| [[gp:ECE 2074 Electric Circuit Analysis Laboratory|ECE 2074 Electric Circuit Analysis Laboratory]]
 
 
| [[w:PSpice|PSpice]]
 
| [[w:PSpice|PSpice]]
| Yes
+
| style="background: LightCoral" | Proprietary
 
| style="background: silver" | [http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=1026 Silver]
 
| style="background: silver" | [http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=1026 Silver]
| No
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| style="background: LightGreen" | Yes
 +
| style="background: LightCoral" | No
 
| [[Qucs]]
 
| [[Qucs]]
 
| You can probably replace the Tront PSpice book with the [http://qucs.sourceforge.net/docs/workbook.pdf Qucs workbook].
 
| You can probably replace the Tront PSpice book with the [http://qucs.sourceforge.net/docs/workbook.pdf Qucs workbook].
 
|-
 
|-
 
 
| [[gp:ECE 2074 Electric Circuit Analysis Laboratory|ECE 2074 Electric Circuit Analysis Laboratory]]
 
 
| [http://www.zeitnitz.de/Christian/scope_en Zeitnitz Soundcard Oscilloscope]
 
| [http://www.zeitnitz.de/Christian/scope_en Zeitnitz Soundcard Oscilloscope]
 
| ?
 
| ?
 
| style="background: gold" | Gold
 
| style="background: gold" | Gold
| No
+
| ?
 +
| style="background: LightCoral" | No
 
| [[xoscope]]
 
| [[xoscope]]
 
|
 
|
 
|-
 
|-
 
 
| [[gp:ECE 2074 Electric Circuit Analysis Laboratory|ECE 2074 Electric Circuit Analysis Laboratory]]
 
 
| [[Velleman PCSGU250]] / [http://www.vellemanusa.com/products/view/?country=us&lang=enu&id=524708 PCLab]
 
| [[Velleman PCSGU250]] / [http://www.vellemanusa.com/products/view/?country=us&lang=enu&id=524708 PCLab]
| yes
+
| style="background: LightCoral" | Proprietary
 
| style="background: rgb(225, 172, 110)" | [http://appdb.winehq.org/screenshots.php?iAppId=2456&iVersionId= Bronze?]
 
| style="background: rgb(225, 172, 110)" | [http://appdb.winehq.org/screenshots.php?iAppId=2456&iVersionId= Bronze?]
| no
+
| Kind of
 +
| style="background: LightCoral" | No
 
| none, if you want to use this hardware
 
| none, if you want to use this hardware
 
| bwr is supposedly working on a linux driver so that this 'scope might also work with [[xoscope]]
 
| bwr is supposedly working on a linux driver so that this 'scope might also work with [[xoscope]]
 
|-
 
|-
 
 
| [[gp:ECE 2504 Introduction to Computer Engineering|ECE 2504 Introduction to Computer Engineering]]
 
 
| [http://www.logicworks5.com/ LogicWorks]
 
| [http://www.logicworks5.com/ LogicWorks]
| Yes
+
| style="background: LightCoral" | Proprietary
 
| style="background: gold" | [http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=4944 Gold]
 
| style="background: gold" | [http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=4944 Gold]
| No
+
| style="background: LightGreen" | Yes
 +
| style="background: LightCoral" | No
 
| [[Qucs]]
 
| [[Qucs]]
 
|  
 
|  
 
|-
 
|-
 
 
| [[gp:ECE 2504 Introduction to Computer Engineering|ECE 2504 Introduction to Computer Engineering]]
 
 
| [[w:MPLAB|MPLAB]]
 
| [[w:MPLAB|MPLAB]]
| Yes
+
| ??
 
| style="background: gold" | [http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=403 Gold]
 
| style="background: gold" | [http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=403 Gold]
 +
| style="background: LightGreen" | Yes
 
| No
 
| No
 
| [http://piklab.sourceforge.net/ Piklab]
 
| [http://piklab.sourceforge.net/ Piklab]
 
|  
 
|  
 
|-
 
|-
 
 
| [[gp:ECE 2534 Microprocessor System Design|ECE 2534 Microprocessor System Design]]
 
 
| [[MicroBlaze|Xilinx tools]] (parts GPL'd)
 
| [[MicroBlaze|Xilinx tools]] (parts GPL'd)
 +
| ??
 +
|
 
| Sometimes quirky
 
| Sometimes quirky
|
 
 
| Yes
 
| Yes
 
|  
 
|  
 
| Use 9.x natively with [http://rmdir.de/%7Emichael/xilinx/ libusb-driver].
 
| Use 9.x natively with [http://rmdir.de/%7Emichael/xilinx/ libusb-driver].
 
|-
 
|-
 
 
| [[gp:ECE 3504 Digital Design I|ECE 3504 Digital Design I]]
 
 
| [http://www.atmel.com/dyn/products/tools_card.asp?tool_id=2759 WinCupl]
 
| [http://www.atmel.com/dyn/products/tools_card.asp?tool_id=2759 WinCupl]
|  
+
| style="background: LightCoral" | Proprietary
 
| style="background: gold" | [http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=2480 Gold]
 
| style="background: gold" | [http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=2480 Gold]
| No
+
| style="background: LightGreen" | Yes
 +
| style="background: LightCoral" | No
 
|  
 
|  
 
| Needs MFC40.dll:
 
| Needs MFC40.dll:
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wine mfc40.exe</pre>
 
wine mfc40.exe</pre>
 
|-
 
|-
 
 
| [[gp:ECE 4564 Network Application Design|ECE 4564 Network Application Design]]
 
 
| [[w:Microsoft_Visual_C_Sharp|MS Visual C#]] + [[w:.NET Framework|.NET]]
 
| [[w:Microsoft_Visual_C_Sharp|MS Visual C#]] + [[w:.NET Framework|.NET]]
| Yes
+
| style="background: LightCoral" | Proprietary
| ?
+
| ??
 +
| style="background: LightGreen" | Yes
 
| No
 
| No
 
| [[MonoDevelop]] + [[Mono]]
 
| [[MonoDevelop]] + [[Mono]]
 +
|
 
|-
 
|-
 
+
| [[VMware]] products
 
+
| style="background: LightCoral" | Proprietary
| [[gp:ECE 4560 Computer and Network Security Fundamentals|ECE 4560 Computer and Network Security Fundamentals]]
+
| style="background: LightCoral" | No
| rowspan="2" | [[VMware]] products
+
| ...
| rowspan="2" | ?
+
| Some
| rowspan="2" | ?
+
| Virtualbox, QEMU
| rowspan="2" | Yes
+
| VMware's tools can generally be used to convert images between VMware and VirtualBox/QEMU formats.
| rowspan="2" | [[VirtualBox]], [[QEMU]], others
 
| rowspan="2" | VMware images are provided as a part of some assignments. Some of the images are in a newer VMware format that VirtualBox and QEMU cannot read and must be converted with VMware before use.
 
|-
 
| [[gp:CS 4984 Introduction to Cyber Security|CS 4984 Introduction to Cyber Security]]
 
 
|-
 
|-
 
 
| CEE 4024 (and others)
 
 
| [https://www.microsoft.com/project/ Microsoft Project]
 
| [https://www.microsoft.com/project/ Microsoft Project]
| Yes
+
| style="background: LightCoral" | Proprietary
 
| style="background: rgb(225, 172, 110)" | [http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=18152 Bronze]
 
| style="background: rgb(225, 172, 110)" | [http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=18152 Bronze]
 +
| style="background: LightGreen" | Yes
 
| No
 
| No
 
| [http://live.gnome.org/Planner GNOME Planner]
 
| [http://live.gnome.org/Planner GNOME Planner]
 
| Planner lacks resource levelling or constraints
 
| Planner lacks resource levelling or constraints
 
|-
 
|-
 
 
| Multiple (CEE and BC)
 
 
| [http://usa.autodesk.com/ Autodesk Products]
 
| [http://usa.autodesk.com/ Autodesk Products]
 +
| style="background: LightCoral" | Proprietary
 +
| style="background: LightCoral" | Garbage
 
| Buggy
 
| Buggy
| style="background: " | Garbage
+
| style="background: LightCoral" | No
| No
 
 
|  
 
|  
 
| Success in Wine depends on the Autodesk product used and revisions of all software involved.
 
| Success in Wine depends on the Autodesk product used and revisions of all software involved.
 
|-
 
|-
 
 
| Some BIT?
 
 
| [https://www.microsoft.com/visio/ Microsoft Visio]
 
| [https://www.microsoft.com/visio/ Microsoft Visio]
| Yes
+
| style="background: LightCoral" | Proprietary
 
| style="background: gold" | [http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=16692 Gold]
 
| style="background: gold" | [http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=16692 Gold]
| No
+
| style="background: LightGreen" | Yes
 +
| style="background: LightCoral" | No
 
| [http://live.gnome.org/Dia Dia]
 
| [http://live.gnome.org/Dia Dia]
 
| Lots of add-ons for circuit shapes and logic for flowcharts
 
| Lots of add-ons for circuit shapes and logic for flowcharts
 
|-
 
|-
 
 
| [http://www.ece.vt.edu/ugrad/viewcourse.php?number=1574-1 ECE 1574]
 
 
| [https://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us Microsoft Visual Studio]
 
| [https://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us Microsoft Visual Studio]
| Yes
+
| style="background: LightCoral" | Proprietary
| style="background: rgb(154, 63, 32)" | [http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=892 Garbage]
+
| style="background: LightCoral" | [http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=892 Garbage]
| No  
+
| style="background: LightGreen" | Yes
 +
| style="background: LightCoral" | No
 
| [http://gcc.gnu.org/ gcc], [http://www.eclipse.org/cdt/ eclipse-cdt]
 
| [http://gcc.gnu.org/ gcc], [http://www.eclipse.org/cdt/ eclipse-cdt]
 
| Compiling C++ in g++ is okay, but testing in a Visual Studio environment is recommended to make sure that the project will work correctly before turning it in.
 
| Compiling C++ in g++ is okay, but testing in a Visual Studio environment is recommended to make sure that the project will work correctly before turning it in.
 
|-
 
|-
 
 
| [[gp:COMM 2004 Public Speaking|COMM 2004 Public Speaking]]
 
 
| [https://www.microsoft.com/powerpoint/ Microsoft PowerPoint]
 
| [https://www.microsoft.com/powerpoint/ Microsoft PowerPoint]
| Yes
+
| style="background: LightCoral" | Proprietary
 
| ?
 
| ?
| No
+
| style="background: LightGreen" | Yes
 +
| style="background: LightCoral" | No
 
| [[LibreOffice]] Impress, [[Beamer]]
 
| [[LibreOffice]] Impress, [[Beamer]]
 
| Some instructors may require PPTX files, but some may also accept PDF; your mileage will very depending upon your instructor.
 
| Some instructors may require PPTX files, but some may also accept PDF; your mileage will very depending upon your instructor.
 
|-
 
|-
 
 
| [[gp:MUS 1104|MUS 1104 Music Appreciation]] (online)
 
 
| [http://www.sibelius.com/products/scorch/index.html Sibelius Scorch]
 
| [http://www.sibelius.com/products/scorch/index.html Sibelius Scorch]
| Yes
+
| style="background: LightCoral" | Proprietary
 
| ?
 
| ?
| No
+
| style="background: LightGreen" | Yes
 +
| style="background: LightCoral" | No
 +
|
 
|  
 
|  
| Only used for a small number of lessons.
 
 
|-
 
|-
 
 
| [[gp:MUS 1104|MUS 1104 Music Appreciation]] (online)
 
 
| [https://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer.html Adobe Flash Player]
 
| [https://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer.html Adobe Flash Player]
| Yes
+
| style="background: LightCoral" | Proprietary
 
| ?
 
| ?
| Yes
+
| style="background: LightGreen" | Yes
 +
| style="background: LightGreen" | Yes
 +
|
 
|  
 
|  
| Used extensively in nearly all lessons.
+
|-
 
|}
 
|}
 +
  
 
==Required Free/Open Source Software==
 
==Required Free/Open Source Software==
This is a list of [[Free Software]] required for classes.
+
This is a list of [[Free Software]] required for classes. '''TODO: Migrate this to the other two sections.'''
  
 
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Revision as of 07:31, 18 February 2015

Courses

Course Software Semesters Professors Notes
BIT 2406 - Quantitative Methods Microsoft Excel 2007 (Solver, Analysis Toolpack) ? ?
COMM 2004 - Public Speaking Microsoft Powerpoint ?? ??
CS 4984 - Intro to Cyber Security VMware ?? ?? VMware images provided with assignments but can be converted.
CEE 4024 Microsoft Project ?? ?? Planner lacks resource levelling or constraints
CEE (multiple) Autodesk family Many Many
ECE 2574 Microsoft Visual C++
ECE 2074 - Circuit Analysis Zeitnitz Soundcard Oscilloscope Prior to Fall 2012 All
ECE 2074 - Circuit Analysis Velleman PCSGU250 / PCLab Fall 2012 - present All
ECE 2504 - Intro to CpE LogicWorks Spring 2012 KL Cooper Substitutes not accepted.
ECE 2534 - Microcontroller Programming and Interfacing MPLAB X All All
ECE 2534 - Microcontroller Programming and Interfacing Xilinx tools Ending in Spring 2012 (??) All
ECE 2574 Microsoft Visual C++
ECE 3504 - Digital Design 1 WinCupl Spring 2013 (?) Thweatt Class has been superceded by ECE 3544, which does not require WinCupl
ECE 4560 - Computer and Network Security Fundamentals Virtualbox Spring 2014 Marchany Other hypervisors work too.
ECE 4564 - Network Applications MS Visual C# + .NET Unknown Unknown No longer used.
ECE 4564 - Network Applications Python Fall 2014 Plymale Raspberry Pis running Raspbian are used as the platform.
ENGE 1024 Engineering Exploration DyKnow, LabView Fall 2011 All DyKnow required for attendance
ENGE 1104 Exploration of Digital Future LabView, MATLAB Spring 2012 All MATLAB functions not found in Octave required
MUS 1104 - Music Appreciation (online) Adobe Flash Player, Sibelius Scorch All All

Software

Software License WINE? VM? Native Linux? Equivalent FOSS Notes
MATLAB Proprietary Gold Yes Yes QtOctave, FreeMat (stale?), Octave (console), Scilab (not syntax-compatible), Sage Parallelize number crunching using the CVL
DyKnow Proprietary Garbage Yes No Ubiquitous Presenter (Free for academic use), completely free version a work in progress Contains malware.
LabView Proprietary Yes Yes
Microsoft Visual C++] Proprietary Garbage Yes No GCC + GDB + Valgrind, KDevelop, eclipse-cdt
Microsoft Excel 2007 Proprietary Gold Yes No Gnumeric 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.

PSpice Proprietary Silver Yes No Qucs You can probably replace the Tront PSpice book with the Qucs workbook.
Zeitnitz Soundcard Oscilloscope ? Gold ? No xoscope
Velleman PCSGU250 / PCLab Proprietary Bronze? Kind of No none, if you want to use this hardware bwr is supposedly working on a linux driver so that this 'scope might also work with xoscope
LogicWorks Proprietary Gold Yes No Qucs
MPLAB ?? Gold Yes No Piklab
Xilinx tools (parts GPL'd) ?? Sometimes quirky Yes Use 9.x natively with libusb-driver.
WinCupl Proprietary Gold Yes No Needs MFC40.dll:
wget http://activex.microsoft.com/controls/vc/mfc40.cab
cabextract mfc40.cab
wine mfc40.exe
MS Visual C# + .NET Proprietary ?? Yes No MonoDevelop + Mono
VMware products Proprietary No ... Some Virtualbox, QEMU VMware's tools can generally be used to convert images between VMware and VirtualBox/QEMU formats.
Microsoft Project Proprietary Bronze Yes No GNOME Planner Planner lacks resource levelling or constraints
Autodesk Products Proprietary Garbage Buggy No Success in Wine depends on the Autodesk product used and revisions of all software involved.
Microsoft Visio Proprietary Gold Yes No Dia Lots of add-ons for circuit shapes and logic for flowcharts
Microsoft Visual Studio Proprietary Garbage Yes No gcc, eclipse-cdt Compiling C++ in g++ is okay, but testing in a Visual Studio environment is recommended to make sure that the project will work correctly before turning it in.
Microsoft PowerPoint Proprietary ? Yes No LibreOffice Impress, Beamer Some instructors may require PPTX files, but some may also accept PDF; your mileage will very depending upon your instructor.
Sibelius Scorch Proprietary ? Yes No
Adobe Flash Player Proprietary ? Yes Yes


Required Free/Open Source Software

This is a list of Free Software required for classes. TODO: Migrate this to the other two sections.

Course Software License Package Name
ECE 2500 Computer Organization SPIM BSD Gentoo: spim

Ubuntu: spim

Arch Linux: qtspim

CS 1054 Introduction to Programming in Java BlueJ GPL Arch Linux: bluej
CS 1114 Introduction to Software Design
CS 2114 Software Design & Data Structures Eclipse EPL Arch Linux: eclipse
CS 2505 Intro to Computer Organization I MARS MIT Arch Linux: mars-mips
CS 2506 Intro to Computer Organization II
CS 2505 Intro to Computer Organization I gcc GPL Arch Linux: gcc
CS 2506 Intro to Computer Organization II
CS 3214 Computer Systems
CS 3214 Computer Systems gdb GPL Arch Linux: gdb
CS 3214 Computer Systems valgrind GPL Arch Linux: valgrind
CS 3304 Comparative Languages ANTLR BSD Arch Linux: antlr3
CS 4984 Introduction to Cyber Security OpenSSL Apache Arch Linux: openssl

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

See Also