Desktop Visual CAD Studio

The Phonon Desktop Visual CAD Studio is a high-performance native application built with Rust, eframe, and egui. It delivers immediate GPU-accelerated schematic capture, virtual multi-channel oscilloscope visualization, and coupled electro-thermal contour rendering.

Launching the Desktop Studio

Launch the interface from terminal or your desktop application launcher:

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Studio Capabilities

1. Interactive Schematic Capture

• Fast component placement: resistors, capacitors, inductors, diodes, BJTs, MOSFETs, and topological acoustic cavities.
• Orthogonal net routing with automatic node junction resolution.
• Dynamic parameter inspector allowing immediate edits to resistance, capacitance, gate lengths, and cryogenic operating temperatures.

2. Virtual Multi-Channel Oscilloscope

• Hardware-accelerated plotting of multi-node node voltages and branch currents.
• Transient (.TRAN), DC operating point (.OP), and DC voltage/current transfer curves (.DC).
• Interactive cursors, zoom, pan, and real-time FFT frequency domain spectrum analysis.

3. Coupled Electro-Thermal Contour Viewer

• Monolithic steady-state and dynamic thermal maps.
• Real-time visualization of silicon junction hot-spots, thermal dissipation paths, and packaging boundary condition heat sinks.
• Early warning indicator for thermal runaway conditions.

4. Direct SPICE Netlist Import & Export

• Load existing industry-standard SPICE netlists (.cir, .sp, .net).
• Live ERC (Electrical Rules Checking) syntax validation.
• Export modified netlists and high-resolution schematics in vector SVG or PNG.