These diagrams are in svg format, obtained by first producing pdf using pdflatex and then converting using dvisvgm --pdf. The pdf equivalent can be found in examples.pdf. Sources for producing similar figures as svg using dpic -v without invoking LaTeX or equivalent can be found in examples/dpv of the the distribution or here.

These examples are intended to be illustrative but no warrantee is given regarding fitness for use.

Click on the link to view the source of each diagram. Read the manual Circuit_macros.pdf for a complete explanation. Browse and enjoy!

quick.m4: The quick-start example from the manual

Resistors.m4: Resistors, showing some variations and the ebox

Capacitors.m4: Capacitors

Inductors.m4: Inductors

Diodes.m4: Diodes: appending a K to the second argument draws an open arrowhead

Emarrows.m4: Radiation arrows

Variable.m4: Arrows and marks for showing variability

Sources.m4: Sources and source-like elements

AmpTable.m4: Macros amp, delay, and integrator

Fuses.m4: Macros fuse, cbreaker, and jumper

Arresters.m4: The arrester macro

MoreTable.m4: Additional two-terminal elements

Grounds.m4: Ground symbols

Antennas.m4: Antenna symbols

Switches.m4: The switch macros; switch(,,,L|B|D) is a wrapper for lswitch, bswitch, and dswitch

Opamp.m4: The opamp

Audio.m4: Audio elements

Xform.m4: Some variations of the transformer element, drawing direction down

NPDT.m4: Double throw with the NPDT macro

Contact.m4: A non-exhaustive sampling of contact macro variations

Contacts.m4: The contacts macro

relaycoil.m4: The relaycoil macro

Relay.m4: Some variants of relay

Jack.m4: The jack and plug macros

Conn.m4: The tstrip, ccoax, tconn, and tbox macros

Pconn.m4: The pconnex macro

cbresistor.m4: Color-coded through-hole resistors. All are 10 percent tolerance except the last, which illustrates 5 percent

EVplugs.m4: Electric vehicle charging plug patterns make extensive use of key=value pairs to set options

Headers.m4: The Header macro

Connectors.m4: Some connectors with simple geometry and lists of labels

Chips.m4: IC package outlines and examples

fet.m4: FETs, showing programmable components and example customizations

ujt.m4: UJT examples

thyristor.m4: Thyristor examples. The thyristor is a 3- or 4-terminal composite element

Bip.m4: Bipolar transistors (drawing direction: up)

Tgate.m4: The tgate and ptrans elements

Nport.m4: The nport and nterm macros

NLG.m4: Some customizations of nport

Windings.m4: The macros winding(L|R,winding diam,pitch,nturns,core wid, "core color") and arcwinding(winding diam, start deg, enddeg, nturns, core centre rad, core wid, "core color")

ex01.m4: Two simple labeled circuits

Optoiso.m4: Optical isolator: a circuit with right or left orientation

pwrsupply.m4: An elementary power supply circuit with colored elements, and a multiple-winding transformer with 3-phase rectifier

PS50.m4: An unregulated 50V power supply

Reg723.m4: A 723 regulator circuit with a heat sink

Mixer.m4: A balanced mixer, using mosfet and a custom transformer

PushPull.m4: A push-pull mixer, showing FETs with multiple gates

Quantum.m4: Quantum circuits

Sixpole.m4: A six-pole filter

ex18.m4: Precision half-wave rectifier and a tunnel diode circuit (illustrating opamp, diode, resistor, ground, and labels)

ex10.m4: Non-planar graph and bistable circuit (illustrating the crossover macro and colored elements)

Three.m4: Three-phase oscillator

MC.m4: A three-phase switched AC-AC converter and a DC-DC converter

ex12.m4: A CMOS NAND gate, a test circuit, and an XMOSFET example

TTLnand.m4: TTL NAND gate illustrating a transistor with multiple emitters

I2L.m4: Gate circuit and equivalent embedded I²L components illustrating multiple collectors

Schottky.m4: A 4-input NAND circuit illustrating the S (Schottky) option of bi_trans

ex11.m4: Transistor radio audio chain

LT3724.m4: IC controller and auxiliary elements of a step-down converter

ex04.m4: Labels on non-manhattan elements

Drive.m4: Synchronous machine driven by variable-speed drive and rectifier

Csource.m4: Realization of a controlled source (illustrating stacked element labels)

AudioAmp.m4: A 50 W audio amplifier

ex16.m4: A rate 1/2 binary convolutional coder and its state diagram

ex03.m4: Digital filter

MotorControl.m4: Motor control connections

Heathkit.m4: The power supply of a Heathkit AR-15 (Now, that was a receiver!) with custom transformer and other elements, drawn on a grid (partially shown) to aid in placement

lcct.m4: A digital circuit of moderate size, redrawn from M. P. Maclenan and G. M. Burns, "An Approach to Drawing Circuit Diagrams for Text Books," Tugboat (12)1, March 1991, pp. 66-69

UNO.m4: An Arduino UNO circuit adapted and redrawn

Tubediags.m4: Electron-tube diagrams: a few bottom-view base diagrams, a generic triode test circuit, and a 25-watt audio amplifier adapted from F. Langford-Smith, Radiotron Designer's Handbook, fourth edition, Harrison, NJ: Radio Corporation of America, 1952

sfg.m4: Signal-flow graphs

Logic.m4: Basic logic gates

ex08.m4: General-purpose latch: a small logic circuit

Decoder.m4: Decoder logic, constructed using the for_ macro

ex21.m4: Some flip-flops

Multiplexer.m4: Multiplexer

Demultiplexer.m4: Demultiplexer

ShiftR.m4: A 5-bit shift register drawn using a custom flip-flop

Adder.m4: A full adder and a cascade of n-bit adders

CanLogic.m4: A way of automatically drawing two-layer logic diagrams

Alogix.m4: The Autologix(Boolean expression; Boolean expression... , options) macro automatically draws Boolean expressions in function notation. The function tree is drawn, then a row or column of inputs, then the connections. The default result is on the left, a custom element at the top, and a tree of gates only is shown on the right.

ABlogix.m4: The Autologix macro can draw inputs on the left but the added drawing complexity may require hand tuning with second-argument options: L puts the inputs on the left, R reverses their order, V scans the input arguments in reverse order, and offset=value displaces the array of inputs

XOR.m4: Realizations of the XOR function using Autologix

OneLine.m4: A single-line distribution diagram

EEP.m4: A further test of single-line diagram macros

ex05.m4: Use of darrow and Darc

GrayCode.m4: The power of looping and branching: Gray code 10-bit encoder disk pattern and a crossbar switch

control.m4: Control-system block diagrams

Byte.m4: Elementary splines

Sevensegment.m4: A customizable seven-segment display showing the numbered segments, a custom shape, and the numerals from 0 to 9

Rotbox.m4: The macro rotbox(wid,ht,type,[r|t=val]) draws a box in the current direction

Shadowed.m4: Embellishments: the top row illustrates shadowed(box|circle|ellipse|line,[at position],keys) and the second row ColoredV(box|circle|ellipse,(r,g,b)|((colorseq)),attributes)

Loglog.m4: A graph and crosshatching example drawn using the pic language

Geometry.m4: Some geometrical constructions

Smithchart.m4: A Smith chart

ex09.m4: Illustrating the macro dimension_(linespec, offset, label, D|H|W|blank width, tic offset,<-|->). A negative second argument implies an offset to the right of the linespec direction. A label starting with " or sprintf is copied literally. If label is an s_box(...) then setting argument 4 to H, W, or D tailors the blank width to the s_box height, width, or diagonal respectively; i.e., W is equivalent to s_wd+textoffset*2. The macro arcdimension_ is similar but the first argument specifies the arc to be dimensioned and the second argument is the outward radial offset of the dimension arrow arc.

Plate.m4: Dimensioning with tolerances

random.m4: Testing random number generation using dpic macro randn(array name, n, mean, std dev) which calls pic built-in rand()

exp.m4: Test of project and other lib3D macros, showing the projection of a solid onto the y₁,z₁ plane by sighting along the x₁ axis.

graysurf.m4: Plotting surfaces using gray scales

shapes.m4: Basic shapes

csc.m4: Conestoga Sailing Club (illustrating the filling of arbitrary shapes) and an antique clock face with shading and rotated text

rose.m4: The left object, used for testing dipic, is redrawn from a detail of the set design for the musical Dracula. This consumes much LaTeX main memory but can be produced directly as pdf using dpic -d, as svg using dpic -v, or as postscript using dpic -r since no text formatting is required. The right object adjusts the size of dots to produce a halftone effect

diamond.m4: Variations on M. Goossens, S. Rahtz, and F. Mittelbach, The LaTeX Graphics Companion, Addison-Wesley 1997, pp. 57-58

worm.m4: An exercise in calculating RGB colours

Buttons.m4: Shading in color

keyboard.m4: This diagram has been produced as svg with dpic -v (then converted to pdf for inclusion in examples.pdf)

Dini.m4: Dini surface, an icosahedron, and a sphere with inscribed cylinder

Sierpinski.m4: The Sierpinski triangle and a Cayley graph: tests of pic macro recursion

Escher.m4: Penrose stairs and an Escher-like object

recycle.m4: Modest repetition and partial fill

ex15.m4: Simple diagrams that are easily drawn by looping

Crow.m4: Illustrating shadebox and a custom crowfoot line termination

Flow.m4: A flowchart sampler

Btree.m4: Trees

Incleps.m4: Overlaying a figure with line graphics

Dwight Aplevich
Contact the author: last name at domain
Domain: uwaterloo.ca

See the README file for information about sources, manuals, installation, integration with other tools, and output formats.

For more examples in the context of textbooks, see:
J. Dwight Aplevich, The Essentials of Linear State-Space Systems, New York: John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2000,
or
Gordon C. Andrews, J. Dwight Aplevich, Roydon A. Fraser, Carolyn G. MacGregor, Introduction to Professional Engineering in Canada, (fifth edition) Toronto: Prentice Hall, Pearson Education Canada, Inc., 2018.