Pehlivan, HuseyinAtalar, CelalZavrak, Sultan2021-12-012021-12-0120211061-37731099-0542https://doi.org/10.1002/cae.22361https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12684/10472Electrical circuits constitute the core of many courses at the undergraduate level in electrical and electronics engineering. For most undergraduate students, learning and analyzing such circuits are a difficult process. A significant drawback of Simulation Program with Integrated Circuit Emphasis (SPICE)-based simulation tools in terms of e-learning is that they only generate circuit simulation outputs, such as the current and voltage of electrical elements contained in a particular circuit. The users are not provided with the detailed information about the steps that are followed to obtain the related outputs. This study describes the development of a new software tool, called ECDAT (a shorthand for the Electrical Circuit Description and Analysis Tool), which can serve as a practical component of electrical circuits courses. The developed tool currently analyzes simple direct electric circuits in a similar way as the existing circuit analysis and simulation ones, and it produces an output document that includes the certain equations and intermediate calculations, using the well-known circuit laws differently from the previous works. Another contribution of the study is that, unlike the modified nodal analysis method used in SPICE-based circuit analysis programs, it employs a graph analysis method for circuit analysis.en10.1002/cae.22361info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccesscircuit analysiscircuit description languageeducational toole&#8208learning softwaregraph analysisArticle295107110862-s2.0-85096697334WOS:000587147600001Q1Q3