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KTechLab is an Open Source Integrated Design Environment (IDE) for electronic and PIC microcontroller circuit design and simulation. Featuring an extensive circuit designer with autorouting and a library of many common analog and digital electronic components and logic elements, KTechLab is the ideal tool for educational or hobbyist use. KTechLab features an easy to use, flowchart based PIC program designer - Flowcoder; along with a BASIC like programming language called Microbe and support for Assembly and C languages. Programs designed by these tools can be added to any circuit design as a 'virtual' PIC allowing complex microcontroller based circuits to be created. Circuits and Flowcharts can be simulated on-the-fly in order to quickly asses their performance. KTechLab supports a wide range of Open Source PIC programmers, enabling finalized PIC programs to be quickly and easily transfered to a real PIC microcontroller. In short KTechLab consists of several well-integrated components:

• A circuit simulator, capable of simulating logic, linear devices and some nonlinear devices;
• Integration with gpsim, allowing PICs to be simulated in circuit;
• A schematic editor, which provides a rich real-time feedback of the simulation;
• A flowchart editor, allowing PIC programs to be constructed visually;
• MicroBASIC; a BASIC-like compiler for PICs, written as a companion program to KTechlab;
• An embedded Kate editor part, which provides a powerful editor for PIC programs;
• Integrated assembler and disassembler via gpasm and gpdasm (Gputils package).

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