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A Report on eSim a First Course in the IoT Series for Teachers on 21 September 2019
IIT Bombay has conducted many large-scale teacher training workshops under the Train 10,000 Teachers (T10KT) programme, sponsored by the National Mission on Education through ICT (NMEICT), MHRD, Govt. of India, and trained over 2,00,000 teachers.
The first workshop in the IoT series was held on eSim at Geethanjali Institute of Science and Technology, Kovur on 21st September 2019. eSim is a Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) EDA tool for circuit design, simulation and PCB design. It is an integrated tool built using FLOSS such as KiCad and Ngspice. eSim is released under GPL. eSim offers similar capabilities and ease of use as any equivalent proprietary software for schematic creation, simulation and PCB design, without having to pay a huge amount of money to procure licenses. Hence it can be an affordable alternative to educational institutions and SMEs. It can serve as an alternative to commercially available/ licensed software tools like OrCAD, Xpedition and HSPICE.
36 participants from Gist and Various colleges participated in the workshop.
The schedule of the workshop as follows
In the forenoon session:
- Watch Spoken Tutorials and create practice creation of circuit schematic.
- Create the schematic of an astablemultivibrator and simulate it.
- Compare the results with the corresponding hardware and hand calculations.
In the afternoon session:
- Practice Gerber files creation using Spoken Tutorials.
- Create the Gerber files for the astablemultivibrator using eSim.
The teaching faculty Prof. Pramod Murali, Dept of Electrical Engineering and Prof. Kannan Moudgalya, Principal Investigator, PMMMNMTT, FOSSEE and Spoken Tutorial Projects, IIT Bombay gave valuable inputs to the participants through A-View Interaction.
Mr. Mahesh Kumar Mulakala Assistant Professor ECE, coordinated the program.
