page_title: CircuiTikZ
hierarchical_section_title: CircuiTikZ
context_page_description: CircuiTikZ is a TikZ add-on for typesetting scientific electrical networks in a TeX environment such as LaTeX. It was started by Massimo Redaelli in 2007 when he had to create exams at the Polytechnic University of Milan as a research assistant. After he left University in 2010 the project began to stumble. From 2015 on the further development mainly takes place at the Institute for Electronics Engineering of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.
  CircuiTikZ is widely used for publications and books in the academic environment of electronics.
context_section_description: CircuiTikZ is a TikZ add-on for typesetting scientific electrical networks in a TeX environment such as LaTeX. It was started by Massimo Redaelli in 2007 when he had to create exams at the Polytechnic University of Milan as a research assistant. After he left University in 2010 the project began to stumble. From 2015 on the further development mainly takes place at the Institute for Electronics Engineering of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.
  CircuiTikZ is widely used for publications and books in the academic environment of electronics.
caption: Circuit diagram example drawn with CircuiTikZ