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Commercial Software Open Download Link License Used where
source
http://www.scilab.org/products/scilab/download Engineering (Electrical,
Mechanical, Civil,
Electronics, Embedded
MATLAB Scilab CeCILL
systems, Chemical),
Science (Physics,
Mathematics)
http://maxima.sourceforge.net/download.html Mathematics,
Mathematica Maxima GPL
Engineering
http://ngspice.sourceforge.net/download.html Engineering (Electrical,
Cadence pSpice ngspice BSD Electronics, Embedded
systems)
Microsoft Office Open office http://download.openoffice.org/ LGPL All branches
Microsoft Office LaTeX http://www.latex‐project.org/ftp.html LPPL All branches
http://www.sagemath.org/download.html Precise arithmetic,
Mathematica/Maple Sage GPL algebra, symbolic
computation
Microsoft Windows GNU/Linux http://www.gnu.org/software/software.html GPL All branches
http://gcc.gnu.org/releases.html Engineering
Turbo C GCC GPL (Introductory Computing
– all branches)
Pro/E BRL-CAD http://brlcad.org/d/download BSD Engineering (CAD)
 http://www.nasm.us/pub/nasm/releasebuilds 
NASM, Engineering (Electronics,
MASM   BSD, BSD
FASM Computer Science)
http://flatassembler.net/download.php

Xmgrace, http://sourceforge.net/projects/graceplot/  BSD, GPL,

MS OFFICE Plotting http://xfig.org/art17.html 
Drawing the figures,
XFIG, Own license
tools http://www.gnuplot.info/download.html plots, flow diagrams
GNUPLOT (but free)
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/binutils/ Assembler, Compilers
Code composer Studio, GNU for micro controllers and
GPL
IAR Workbench Binutils DSP Processors (MSP,
VC33 etc)
http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux‐HOWTO/RTLinux‐ GPL,
HOWTO.html  GPL/LGPL Real-time operating
RTLinux,  
VxWORKS (kernel and System for Desktop and
RTAI https://www.rtai.org/ user space Embedded Systems
respectively),
http://sdcc.sourceforge.net/index.php#Download GCC SDCC compiler for
KEIL 8051 SDCC GPL
8051 controlers
synopsis-CosmosSE, http://opencircuitdesign.com/xcircuit/download.html
Mentor-Icstudio, Xcircuit GPL schematic design
Cadence-Virtuoso
Mentor-ICstation, http://opencircuitdesign.com/magic/download.html Used for chip Layout
Magic BSD
Cadence-Virtuoso design
http://ghdl.free.fr/download.html 
Modelsim ghdl, freehdl GPL VHDL compiler
http://freehdl.seul.org/

Matlab Octave http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/download.html GPL Numerical Computation

AutoCad KiCad, http://kicad.sourceforge.net/wiki/Downloads  GPL CAD system
 FreeCad http://sourceforge.net/projects/free‐cad/

S-Plus R http://cran.r‐project.org/bin/ GPL Statistics

Operating System GNU/LINUX http://www.bosslinux.in/ GPL Operating System