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Free practical electronics engineering calculators for circuit design, components, RF, power electronics, batteries, signal analysis and electrical engineering.

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Tools for Modern Electronics

Explore calculators covering fundamental circuits, passive components, RF and signal analysis, batteries, electrical units and practical hardware engineering.

Circuit & Analog

Calculators for voltage, current, resistance, power, dividers, time constants and resonance.

Components

Practical calculators for resistors, capacitors and inductors used in everyday circuit design.

RF & Signal Analysis

Calculators for wavelength, frequency, antennas, dB, dBm and signal relationships.

Power Electronics

Tools for electrical power, batteries, stored energy and practical power-system calculations.

Frequency & Timing

Convert frequency and period and work with timing relationships used in digital and analog electronics.

Electrical Units

Convert common electrical engineering units and signal levels quickly without leaving the Octopart platform.

Electronics Calculators

Engineering Calculator Directory

Browse the available Octopart.org calculators. Each tool provides the relevant formula, inputs, worked examples and practical engineering notes.

Use these tools for quick engineering calculations during circuit design, component selection, prototyping, RF work, power-system analysis and electronics development.

Circuit Calculators

Fundamental voltage, current, resistance, power and circuit relationships.

Ohm's Law Calculator

Calculate voltage, current, resistance and power using Ohm's law.

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Voltage Divider Calculator

Calculate divider output voltage, current and resistor power.

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Current Divider Calculator

Calculate current distribution through parallel resistor branches.

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Power Dissipation Calculator

Calculate electrical power from voltage, current and resistance.

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RC / RL / RLC Time Constant

Calculate RC and RL time constants and related circuit timing values.

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Resonance Frequency Calculator

Calculate LC and RLC resonant frequency from inductance and capacitance.

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Resistor, Capacitor & Inductor Calculators

Component values, combinations, stored energy and electrical characteristics.

SMD Resistor Code Calculator

Decode 3-digit, 4-digit, R-marked and EIA-96 SMD resistor markings.

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Resistor Color Code Calculator

Decode resistor values from common color-band markings.

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Series Resistor Calculator

Calculate total resistance, circuit current, voltage drops and power for series resistors.

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Parallel Resistor Calculator

Calculate equivalent resistance for parallel resistor networks.

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Capacitor Reactance Calculator

Calculate capacitive reactance from frequency and capacitance.

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Inductor Reactance Calculator

Calculate inductive reactance from frequency and inductance.

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Series Capacitor Calculator

Calculate equivalent capacitance, charge and voltage distribution.

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Parallel Capacitor Calculator

Calculate total capacitance for parallel capacitor networks.

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Capacitor Energy Calculator

Calculate energy stored in a capacitor using E = ½CV².

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Inductor Energy Calculator

Calculate energy stored in an inductor using E = ½LI².

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RF, Signal & Frequency Calculators

Tools for frequency, wavelength, antennas, signal levels and RF engineering.

Frequency ↔ Wavelength

Convert frequency to wavelength and wavelength to frequency.

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Antenna Length Calculator

Estimate quarter-wave and other antenna lengths from operating frequency.

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dB Calculator

Calculate power, voltage and current ratios in decibels.

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Voltage ↔ dB Calculator

Convert voltage ratios to dB and dB values back to voltage ratios.

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dBm ↔ Watts Calculator

Convert RF power levels between dBm, watts, milliwatts and microwatts.

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Frequency ↔ Period

Convert frequency to period and period to frequency across common units.

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Power & Battery Calculators

Practical tools for electrical power, battery capacity and stored energy.

Power Dissipation

Calculate power using voltage, current or resistance.

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Battery Runtime Calculator

Estimate battery runtime from capacity, voltage, load and efficiency.

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Capacitor Energy

Calculate stored energy from capacitance and voltage.

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Inductor Energy

Calculate magnetic energy stored in an inductor from L and current.

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Electrical Unit Converters

Convert electrical engineering quantities and signal-related units.

Electrical Unit Converter

Convert common electrical units including voltage, current, resistance, capacitance, inductance, frequency and power.

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Frequency ↔ Period

Convert Hz, kHz, MHz and GHz into corresponding time periods.

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Frequency ↔ Wavelength

Convert between frequency and wavelength for RF, optical and acoustic applications.

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dBm ↔ Watts

Convert absolute RF power levels between dBm and watts or milliwatts.

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Octopart Development

Engineering Tool Roadmap

The calculator library will continue expanding into PCB engineering, embedded systems, power electronics, RF and hardware manufacturing.

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Fundamental Electronics

Ohm's law, voltage and current dividers, resistance, power, capacitors, inductors, RC circuits and resonance.

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Component Engineering

Resistor color codes, SMD markings, capacitor codes, component combinations, energy storage and practical component calculations.

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RF & Signal Engineering

Wavelength, antennas, dB, dBm, attenuation, signal ratios, RF systems and transmission-line calculations.

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PCB & Power Electronics

Trace width, via current, impedance, PCB stackups, converters, batteries, thermal calculations and power-system tools.

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Embedded Systems & Manufacturing

Future tools can include UART, SPI, I²C, PWM, clocks, BOM analysis, PCB manufacturing, assembly and hardware production utilities.

An Electronics Toolbox for Engineers

Octopart.org brings practical electronics calculations and engineering utilities into one accessible platform. The calculator library covers circuit design, passive components, RF and signal analysis, power electronics, batteries and electrical unit conversion.

New engineering tools can be added progressively, with an emphasis on clear formulas, useful examples, responsive interfaces and practical engineering notes.

Latest Electronics News 2026 | Engineering, Tech & Hardware Updates

Latest Electronics News & Engineering Articles

Stay updated with the newest trends in electronics, hardware, and embedded systems.

EE Times News

Advancing Integrated Optics: Celestica & Broadcom Interview at OCP Global Summit

Celestica and Broadcom explain how integrated optics can cut power and latency for AI data centers—watch the OCP Summit partner interview.

The post Advancing Integrated Optics: Celestica & Broadcom Interview at OCP Global Summit appeared first on EE Times.

Powering AI Data Centers: Rethinking Energy Infrastructure for the Next Wave of AI Growth

AI data centers need faster, resilient power; learn how microgrids, storage, and intelligent controls can ease grid constraints in this partner interview.

The post Powering AI Data Centers: Rethinking Energy Infrastructure for the Next Wave of AI Growth appeared first on EE Times.

Still Looking for Diamonds

Silicon carbide demand surges, but Europe risks hollow sovereignty as investment flows abroad; see why Bulgaria’s fab needs customers first.

The post Still Looking for Diamonds appeared first on EE Times.

Designing Smarter Security and Portable Camera Systems

Security and portable camera designers must balance image quality, power consumption, connectivity, and system cost across widely different operating environments. This guide provides a practical system-level reference for surveillance cameras, video doorbells, body cameras, trail cameras, action cameras, and dashboard cameras. It explains how low-power motion detection, high dynamic range, near-infrared sensitivity, and region-of-interest processing […]

The post Designing Smarter Security and Portable Camera Systems appeared first on EE Times.

DeepX Tapes Out Second-Gen Chip, Projects 6.7× Performance Gain With LPDDR5x-PIM

DeepX is targeting edge markets including robotics with its second-generation AI accelerator, which can run large LLMs on device in under 5 W.

The post DeepX Tapes Out Second-Gen Chip, Projects 6.7× Performance Gain With LPDDR5x-PIM appeared first on EE Times.

Hackaday News

Radon Active

When you think about nuclear radiation, you often think about power plants, but it turns out there’s radioactive stuff all over the place: smoke detectors, granite counters, bananas, and potatoes …read more

Web Satellite Tracker Plays the Music of the Spheres

There are a dizzying number of satellites in orbit around the Earth these days, and more are being added at an incredible rate. Those of us with an interest in …read more

Determining Location by Listening for Airplanes

Beyond what people deliberately disclose, there’s a surprising amount of information hidden in everyday messages, especially photos and videos. Even when people try to hide the location or time at …read more

A Smart Alarm Clock That Doesn’t Sell Your Soul

Devices from the likes of Google and Amazon can be used as high-tech alarm clocks that can show the weather and family photos in addition to telling you what time …read more

Saving a Vintage High-Voltage Power Supply From the Scrap Heap

[Mr Carlson’s Lab] saves a Fluke Model 407 high-voltage power supply from the scrap heap, and demonstrates carefully troubleshooting the vintage device to track the cause of the bad output …read more

Adafruit Blog News

Proper Linux, on an ESP32

Harry Fairhead, writing at I Programmer, covers Espressif’s official Linux fork for the ESP32-S31. The S31 is a dual-core RISC-V chip running at 320MHz, and it has the memory management a real operating system needs: a two-level page table with address translation, plus privilege levels that keep the kernel separate from user space. There are […]

Play ASCII Doom in the terminal

WND Software has put a playable copy of Doom on its site, running inside the WND Terminal emulator in a browser. The game isn’t running in the browser itself. It’s running on an IBM Z mainframe host, and the terminal emulator connects over SSH using VT/xterm. The picture is drawn entirely in colored text characters, […]

A guide on how microcontrollers work

electroniclovers has posted a tutorial on Hackster that walks through what’s inside a microcontroller and how the parts work together. It covers the three core blocks: the CPU that runs the instructions, the memory that holds the code and the variables, and the I/O peripherals that connect the chip to switches, sensors, relays, motors and […]

A custom Game Boy cart speeds up development

MrFrenchLame built a Game Boy development cartridge that cuts the wait out of writing code. The cart holds a boot ROM, RAM, a reset button and a switch that swaps the ROM out for the RAM. A program on a PC talks to the bootloader over a parallel port and sends a new build into […]

A DEC PDP-8/E restoration log

The Rhode Island Computer Museum has posted a long restoration log for a DEC PDP-8/E, covering work from February 2014 into 2016. The machine came in with mouse droppings in the chassis, dead panel lamps and two processor boards installed backwards. The Omnibus backplane carries a manufacturing date of 5/14/74. Much of the log is […]

Electronics Weekly News

CesiumAstro satellite antenna specialist raises $730m

CesiumAstro, the satellite antenna specialist, has closed $730 million in Series D financing. Its payloads – the company highlights – combine active phased array antennas, RF front ends, analogue and […]

The post CesiumAstro satellite antenna specialist raises $730m appeared first on Electronics Weekly.

Jensen Huang apologises: Nvidia board investigates

After Jensen Huang (pictured) admitted an affair with Alice Huang, a senior executive at Singapore datacentre company Megaspeed, who US intelligence officials believe is a Chinese spy. The board of […]

The post Jensen Huang apologises: Nvidia board investigates appeared first on Electronics Weekly.

TSMC rumoured to be eyeing 3D DRAM

TSMC is said to have appointed vice-president Hsu Kuo-Chin to look at how the company could get into 3D DRAM, according to multiple industry reports, but it would seem that […]

The post TSMC rumoured to be eyeing 3D DRAM appeared first on Electronics Weekly.

Toshiba gets £20m government contract to commercialise quantum

Toshiba Europe has been awarded a contract by Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), to develop technologies that can help unlock the commercial potential of quantum networks. […]

The post Toshiba gets £20m government contract to commercialise quantum appeared first on Electronics Weekly.

European AI companies have raised $27.6bn this year

Europe AI companies raised $27.6bn in the first nine months of 2026, up 3.2-times from $8.6bn in 9M 2025, says Tracxn Technologies. The 10 largest rounds raised $19.0bn of that, […]

The post European AI companies have raised $27.6bn this year appeared first on Electronics Weekly.

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