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Impedance spectroscopy software

Mildronate - 5-11-2013 at 07:48

Anbody had copy of Dr. Bernard A. Boukamp Equivalent Circuit Program?

bfesser - 5-11-2013 at 09:24

This is not an appropriate forum to ask for pirated software. Try <a href="http://www.jrossmacdonald.com/levminfo.html" target="_blank">this alternative</a> <img src="../scipics/_ext.png" />, or post in an appropriate forum. (This isn't even the right forum for computational apps.)

bfesser - 7-11-2013 at 10:09

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The poster wasn't asking for commercial software, but rather software described by a 1986 publication, which ends with words to the effect "For a copy of the program, contact the author."
But frankly I don't understand why the OP didn't contact the author, who is still active at the University.
I'm rather new to the board, and it took a while to realize that the thread was locked. I understand the problem with pirated software, but I'm not so sure about software such as this case. Once the program's author retires, does the software become unavailable?
BTW, it isn't really what would be considered computational chemistry, although this board seems to have a somewhat different view of that term.
My apologies, Mildronate.

[Edited on 7.11.13 by bfesser]

watson.fawkes - 7-11-2013 at 10:27

The original software, at least 25 years old now, was called "equivcrt.pas" and was written in Turbo Pascal. Borland has made old MS-DOS versions available, but that's the most recent that exists. The code itself is hardly good for modification, given that there's no current development system for it. Plus, there are several analysis packages that are far more recent and some for which source code is available.

Boukamp has a nice expository presentation on the subject as a whole (and it's from only five years ago).

This is properly in Technochemistry, since this is data analysis software for observations using some rather specialized gear. It's not computational chemistry as that phrase usually means, which refers to physical simulation of molecules.