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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

CASPA CEO Summit Preview with President Jimmy Cheng

CASPA’s annual conference celebrates its 35th anniversary with a lineup of more than 35 CEOs from Silicon Valley, including Intel’s Lip-Bu Tan and Cerebras’s Andrew Feldman.

The post CASPA CEO Summit Preview with President Jimmy Cheng appeared first on EE Times.

17 Years with China: What Really Makes a Partnership Work

Honya Europe's Robert Tarantowicz shares 17 years of lessons on PCB sourcing in China, quality, trust, and risk management.

The post 17 Years with China: What Really Makes a Partnership Work appeared first on EE Times.

Europe’s Advanced Packaging Gap: Fraunhofer, Swissbit Target the Missing Middle

Low-volume production sits between research and mass manufacturing. Europe needs an industrial model to fill the gap.

The post Europe’s Advanced Packaging Gap: Fraunhofer, Swissbit Target the Missing Middle appeared first on EE Times.

Applied Materials Bets $5B on a New Model for Chip Innovation

Applied Materials’ $5 billion EPIC Center brings chipmakers, equipment suppliers, and researchers together to accelerate semiconductor R&D and commercialization.

The post Applied Materials Bets $5B on a New Model for Chip Innovation appeared first on EE Times.

Embedded Graphics on an MCU – Without an Accelerator

Join this webinar and learn how to add LCD graphics to MCU projects without a display controller, accelerator, or external DRAM.

The post Embedded Graphics on an MCU – Without an Accelerator appeared first on EE Times.

Hackaday News

The FPGA Chronicles: Ready to Probe

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A Modern Browser for the PlayStation Portable

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Open Firmware Fixes Dead Onkyo AV Receivers

If you’ve been reading Hackaday for any length of time, you’ll know we love seeing hackers replacing the stock firmware on their devices with open source alternatives. Usually this is …read more

Emulating a Floppy Drive By Emulating The Drive Itself

The Commodore 1541 is famously the floppy drive for the Commodore 64 series of 8-bit computers, and can be found with relative ease. Not so well known is its 1551 …read more

Using Kirigami Techniques to Make Functional Designs

The variant of origami called kirigami (‘cut paper’ in Japanese) also starts off with a sheet of paper, but it allows for cutting the paper to increase the number of …read more

Adafruit Blog News

The Naïve display GUI for Arduino

Developer glutio has published Focuspocus on GitHub, a small GUI library for Arduino projects with a display. It provides buttons, labels, checkboxes, radio buttons, sliders, progress bars and popups, with automatic layout, touch input and button-driven focus navigation. The library adds about 12 to 16 KB of flash. The simple TFT examples fit on an […]

PSPi mod board version 6 jazzes the PSP 1000

othermod has published the hardware designs, firmware, and software for the PSPi 6 on GitHub. The project is a custom circuit board that replaces the mainboard of a PSP 1000 and puts a Raspberry Pi in its place. The original shell, screen area, and controls stay, and the Pi does the work. The board design […]

Sneha Goenka #ALD26 @findingada

  image via SnehaGoenka.com   Dr. Sneha D. Goenka was the lead on the computational team for the world’s fastest genome sequencing. She’s been named a 2025 MIT Technology Review Innovator of the Year and a 2023 Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree. Check out Dr. Goenka’s site, GitHub, X, Google Scholar and MIT Technology Review […]

500+ billion tokens later: letting AI agents decompile a first-person shooter

Maurice Heumann spent three months on momo5502.com documenting how a group of autonomous AI agents decompiled an old first-person shooter into C++. The game is not named. The setup used Claude Code and Codex CLI agents, GitHub issues as a task list with one issue per translation unit, a Discord channel for agent-to-agent chat, and […]

Father and daughter turn game-making into a family project

Les Pounder, writing on the Pimoroni blog, covered Fluffpad, a pocket games console built by Ilya Titov (aka Webgoggles) around a Raspberry Pi RP2350 and Pimoroni parts. Titov is also the maker of AttinyArcade, the tiny arcade machine based on an ATtiny85. The build uses a Pimoroni display pack, a Qw/ST pad, hot glue and […]

Electronics Weekly News

How Can Users Who Seek Mental Health Support From AI Be Protected?

As more and more people lean on chatbots for comfort and guidance, experts have raised alarms over the potential pitfalls: erosion of social skills, unhealthy attachment to digital companions offering […]

The post How Can Users Who Seek Mental Health Support From AI Be Protected? appeared first on Electronics Weekly.

Linking functional safety with cybersecurity in the automotive industry

Adding cybersecurity to a car alongside existing protection against technical failures may disrupt critical reaction times for preventing an accident. Engineers can balance this through combined risk analysis, writes Diego […]

The post Linking functional safety with cybersecurity in the automotive industry appeared first on Electronics Weekly.

Knowles ATT A-Series of attenuators in compact SMT package

Knowles is introducing its ATT A-Series of wideband, surface mount attenuators, broadening its high-performance RF component portfolio. The company highlights the series’ attenuation accuracy and high power handling in a compact […]

The post Knowles ATT A-Series of attenuators in compact SMT package appeared first on Electronics Weekly.

Fortastra raises $30m for manoeuvrable spacecraft for in-orbit security

Fortastra, a space defence company, has raised $30 million of Series A funding. It aims to establish persistent, multi-orbit security coverage through mass deployment of its security craft. The round […]

The post Fortastra raises $30m for manoeuvrable spacecraft for in-orbit security appeared first on Electronics Weekly.

Miniature modules open up in-fixture functional testing

Swedish PCB test company Wireflow has partnered with the UK’s Pickering Interfaces to create Testblox AB, offering automated test that does not need reconfiguration and which is easy to replicate, […]

The post Miniature modules open up in-fixture functional testing appeared first on Electronics Weekly.

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