{circuitikz} is a package for drawing electrical networks with TikZ.

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Electric circuits in TeX, LaTeX, and Friends

What are some ways to draw electric circuits in TeX systems? I'm making this community wiki since I haven't found a question related to this. I was thinking along the lines of circuitikz. What do ...
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AC source symbol in TikZ circuits.ee.IEC library

I can draw an AC source manually: \begin{tikzpicture} \draw (0,0) sin (1,1) cos (2,0) sin (3,-1) cos (4,0); \draw (2,0) circle (2.5); \end{tikzpicture} How do I declare an ACsource symbol so ...
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Relationship between tikz circuit library and circuitikz?

Is there any relationship between tikz circuit library and circuitikz, for example that one is build on top of the other. Are they compatible in some way? Is one of them in some way obsolete?
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Does a workaround or solution exists for the label conflict of circuitikz and TikZ?

I would like to use circuitikz with TikZ. However, I find that circuitikz modifies or does not recognize TikZ labels. The author of circuitiz has commented that in the "released version of CircuiTikz ...
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Drawing circuit diagrams (with logic gates) in LaTeX

I'm having some difficult drawing circuit diagrams with logic gates in LaTeX. I've tried with circuitikz and pst-circ. \begin{pspicture}(-1,-1)(5,3) \logicand[ninputs=2,invertinputa=true, ...
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CircuitTikZ - Combine Tripoles with resistors

I'm just learning how to use CircuitTikZ to draw circuits, and I am trying to draw a good looking BJT biasing circuit. But I am having making the resistors across from each other look even, and since ...
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Complicated logic circuit drawing with Tikz - two input buffer gate?

i'm trying to draw similar image with Tikz and Circuit Library, so far i'm stucked at drawing buffer gate with two labeled inputs (IBUFGDS and IBUFDS), standard library have a gate with only one ...
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Circuitikz label in middle of open circuit

I've just started using Circuitikz and and I'd like to know how one would go about getting a label say, 'v', in the middle of the open circuit (perhaps with a plus and minus either side of it). Also, ...
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Voltage labels too close to circuit element with circuitikz 2.4

Since upgrading to circuitikz 2.4, I noticed that the voltage labels are way too close to the circuit elements. For example: \documentclass{article} \usepackage[american ...
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Voltage sign convention (European vs. American) in Circuitikz

This time I dive into Circuitikz. Anyway, I've got a problem with the american and european styles of e.g. voltages. IIRC Voltage drops are counted positive which means the voltage arrow in the ...
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Creating custom electronic components in TikZ

In Tikz there is an opportunity to draw logical gates,... I was wondering if it is possible (and easy) to make custom components, like a CMOS-transistor, a Multiplexer, flip-flop,... Perhaps these ...
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Using circuitikz to generate logic circuit diagrams? [closed]

How can I use circuitikz (or similar library for small code) to generate logic circuit diagrams with full variable life. x ---[and1]--- z y ---[and1]--- z So f(x,y)=z An image of the kind of ...
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CircuiTikZ — create new component

How can I create a new component and include it in CircuiTikZ? For example a 4 bit adder?
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circuit schematic symbol for buffer with control input

circuitikz has an op amp component type with two inputs, output, and up and down ports, usually used for power supply rails. There's also a buffer component type (which I think is provided by tikz ...
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Spacing circuit element labels from their elements with CircuiTikz

I want to draw a resistor with a resistance value showing and a voltage label showing as well. This is content-wise an MWE of everything I want: \documentclass{article} ...
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Battery symbol in circuitikz

Is it possible to make circuitikz draw battery-symbols like this:
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Drawing vectorized digital logic circuits

I'm looking for a tool to draw vectorized digital logical circuits. I first wanted to use Circuitikz, but found out that their are only two input lines for AND and OR gates. Are there any options to ...