2026
How flip-flops work
In this tutorial, we are going to explore what flip-flops are and how they are built from logic gates. If you want to first learn how logic gates are built f...
Release 2.2.0 with AI Assistant
Various bugfixes, improvements and the new feature ‘AI Assistant’.
Release 2.1.0
Various bugfixes, improvements and new features.
Release 2.0.1 - Urgent bugfixes
Two urgent fixes in release 2.0.0.
Release 2.0.0 - Antares is open source
Besides the usual bugfixes and improvement, Antares is now open source under the Apache 2.0 license. You can get the source repo on GitHub.
Release 1.36.0 with increased “Boolean equation solver” performance
Besides many improvement and a couple of bugfixes, the most notable one is a dramatic improvement of the performance of the boolean equation solver used for ...
Release 1.35.0
Many features, improvements and bug fixes, most of them came up while me trying to do “nand2tetris” with Antares.
Release 1.34.0 with bugfixes
Maintenance release with bugfixes mainly in wire layout generation for “Set points” mode.
Release 1.33.0 with gate sizes and LED stripes
Besides the usual bug fixes and improvements, there are also two new features worth mentioning.
2025
Release 1.32.0 with analog LED and “Set points” wiring
Besides the usual bugfixes and minor improvements, this release brings a couple of new features and major improvements.
Release 1.31.0 with the new “Poster” feature
Besides the usual bugfixes and smaller improvement, this release allows you to create a poster with all circuits of your project, and export it as image in v...
Release 1.30.0
Maintenance release with bugfixes and improvements.
Release 1.29.0
This release features a new library component “7-Segment with decoder”, along with some features regarding circuit parameters required for this new component...
Release 1.28.0 with bugfixes
Maintenance release.
Release 1.27.0 with bugfixes
Maintenance release.
Release 1.26.0 with bugfixes
Maintenance release.
Release 1.25.0 with bugfixes
Mainly bugfixes, especially for the severe bug #979 “Error when joining open wires”, which could leave the circuit in an inconsistent state, but also the fea...
Release 1.24.0 with bugfixes
Some bugfixes, especially for the severe bug #968 that lead to many unexpected errors in “Undo” after opening memory contents in a dialog.
Release 1.23.0 with bugfixes
Bugfixes.
Release 1.22.0 with bugfixes
This is a maintenance release with fixes for important bugs, especially for #945, which could freeze Antares when saving a circuit that uses bidirectional pi...
Release 1.21.0
Besides fixes of a couple of ‘Unexpected errors’ reported by the new feature that uploads descriptions of these errors, a new notable feature is “Auto-adjust...
Release 1.20.0 with “Markdown” editor
Besides many bugfixes and various improvements, this release contains a new “Documentation” feature that allows you to write a Markdown document for each cir...
Release 1.19.0
Maintenance release.
Release 1.18.0 - FSM
Besides the usual bugfixes, this release brings the new epic feature “Finite State Machines”.
Release 1.17.1
Various bug fixes.
Release 1.17.0
Besides the usual bugfixes, release 1.17.0 comes with lots of new features, including many new analog components, and also usability features like the new sy...
2024
Release 1.16.0
Besides a couple of new components in the “Standard library”, this release mainly features a lot of bugfixes, especially the severe ones #809 “Changing simul...
Release 1.15.1
Fixes a critical bug in displaying simulation state of subcircuits.
Release 1.15.0
The timing of this release is mainly determined by some urgent bugfixes, especially the translation bugs that prevented users with German locales from using ...
Some new SN 74xx circuits
We’ve added a couple of new circuits to the SN 74xx library in the Antares assets project:
Release 1.14.0
Besides the usual bugfixes and minor features, this release brings the bigger features “Overview of global signals” and “Non-volatile RAM”. There are also so...
Release 1.13.0 - Publish your circuits in your web pages!
Starting with this release, you can upload your projects to the cloud and embed circuits in your own web pages, where users can simulate them.
Making Logic Gates from Transistors
This is the new version of this tutorial that uses analog transistors, where you can watch changing voltage levels and animated electric current fl...
Release 1.12.0 - We’ve finally fixed the wiring bug!
One of the most important achievements of this release is that we’ve hopefully fixed the annoying “Wiring bug”, which lead to unexpected errors and, even wor...
Release 1.11.1 with bugfixes
Fixes some severe bugs.
Release 1.11.0 with global tunnels
Besides the usual smaller features and bugfixes, the main new feature of this release are global tunnels.
Release 1.10.0 with analog circuits
Besides some improvements of the VHDL export feature, the main new feature of this release are analog circuits.
2023
Release 1.9.0
Besides many bug fixes and some minor new feature, the main feature of this release is the possibility to export an Antares circuit (and its sub circuits) to...
Release 1.8.0
Besides many bugfixes, release 1.8.0 primarily contains the new features “Record mode for use cases” and “Circuit tests”.
Release 1.7.0
Release 1.7 brings besides some smaller features a lot of bug fixes, especially the fix for the severe bug #648, which could lead to corrupt circuit files wh...
Building Ben Eater’s 8-bit computer
Some of you may have noticed that I’ve decided it’s time to do a circuit project using Antares on my own, so I can experience myself how it’s like to use Ant...
Release 1.6.0
Various bugfixes and new features, most notably “Subscript in component names (Rich Text)” and a fix for “Dead components”, which was a result of the circuit...
Release 1.5.0
Various bugfixes and new features, most notably “Expose the project workspace” and “Avoid overlapping wires in layout algorithm”.
Antares usage statistics
As some of you may wonder whether anybody else is using Antares, I’ve decided to disclose the current usage statistics.
Release 1.4.0
Various bugfixes and new features.
Release 1.3.0
Various bugfixes and new features.
Antares is on Twitter!
Check out our new Twitter account for updates on what is currently going on in the Antares project.
2022
Release 1.2.0
Besides the usual bugfixes, this release contains some new features like a shape library in the symbol editor, a new circuit hierarchy tree view, support for...
Release 1.1.0 and “Introduction” YouTube video
Besides the usual bugfixes, release 1.1.0 some new features like the new “Power-On Reset” component or a welcome dialog with a link to our new introduction Y...
Release 1.0.0
After seven years of intense development, Antares finally reaches release 1.0! This release contains many major new features, which will be described in deta...
Release 0.31.0 with important bug fixes
This release is a pure bugfix release that fixes some important bugs, especially a particularly severe one in the undo/redo system, and a bug that rendered m...
Release 0.30.0 with ‘Wire Tap’ and Fixed Point Representation
Besides the usual bugfixes, release 0.30.0 also contains a couple of interesting new features.
Release 0.29.2 with urgent bug fix
Release 0.29.2 fixes a severe bug introduced in 0.28.0 related with the new auto-generation of circuit symbols. The bug could lead to loosing the blue-crosse...
Release 0.29.1 with urgent bug fix
Release 0.29.1 fixes a severe bug in 0.29.0 that occurs when trying to create a new wire junction.
Release 0.29.0 with ‘Search in circuits’
Starting with this release, you can now search for components in a circuit. Press Alt-Ctrl-F (or Alt-Cmd-F on Mac) to display the search bar. If you enter a ...
Release 0.28.0 with automatic symbol generation
Starting with this release, Antares can now generate a default symbol for your sub circuits. Use user preference “Circuit -> Style of generated symbols” t...
Release 0.27.1 with some patches for 0.27.0
Release 0.27.1 fixes two severe bugs introduced with 0.27.0, especially the unexpected error that could occur when dragging components within a circuit.
Release 0.27.0 with lots of bug fixes
Release 0.27.0 fixes a lot of smaller bugs and brings a couple of minor usability features, especially regarding moving components. Also check out the new “K...
Release 0.26.0 with feedback system
Along with a couple of bugfixes, this release mainly consists of a new feedback system that asks the user to give feedback about Antares when the application...
Release 0.25.0 with simulation engine fix
The main reason for this release is a fix of a severe bug #341 in the simulation engine that could lead to infinite oscillation cross-coupled bi-directional ...
Release 0.24.0 with Oscilloscope
The main purpose of this release is to make the oscilloscope component available to the users. It has been around for a couple of years as a development vers...
Critical bug in 0.23.0
Release 0.23.1 fixes a critical bug that can occur when opening a project.
Release 0.23.0
Release 0.23.0 brings a couple of useful new features. Besides the new component “Lookup Table”, additional Bit Width 6 and 7, and some extensions in the new...
New Module “Analysis” in 0.22.0
Release 0.22.0 extends the “Synthesis” module introduced in 0.21.0 by adding the possibility to enter boolean expressions and minimize them. See the updated ...
New Module “Synthesis” in 0.21.0
Release 0.21.0 brings the entirely new module “Synthesis”, which allows you to define truth tables, to let Antares create optimized boolean expressions from ...
Release 0.20.0
Besides some bugfixes, improved simulation speed, and the new “Double-Throw Switch” component, the most awaited feature is probably #309, which allows you to...
Release 0.19.0
Besides the new feature “Reconnect wire to existing wire”, this release fixes two severe bugs.
Release 0.18.0
Besides the usual small bugfixes,release 0.18.0 brings a refresh of the UI’s look & feel, support for rotating entire selections of components, and a lot...
Release 0.17.1
This patch release fixes some bugs, especially the severe bug #280 which altered the view’s zoom/pan setting when undoing operations such that the circuit wa...
Release 0.17.0
Release 0.17.0 brings important fixes for some bugs, amongst of which #276 being the worst, as it prevented users from changing the name of a circuit.
2021
Release 0.16.0 new n-bit components, Video RAM, and improved signal flow animation
Besides the usual small bug fixes, release 0.16.0 brings significant improvements in signal flow animations, a lot of new n-bit components in the standard li...
Bugfix Release 0.15.1
This bugfix release fixes some bugs, especially #259 which prevented you from changing the bit width properties in RAM, ROM or LED Matrix components.
Release 0.15.0 with Parametrized Circuits and Sound
Release 0.15 brings the powerful feature “Generic Parameters of Subcircuits” that allows you to parametrize a circuit with a bit width and choose the actual ...
Release 0.14.0
Along with a couple of bugfixes, of which “Error in ‘Import Circuit’” was the most severe one, there are some useful new features regarding transistors, zoom...
Making Logic Gates from Transistors
There is a newer version of this tutorial that uses analog transistors, where you can watch changing voltage levels and animated electric current f...
New scripting language
Release 0.13.0 of Antares brings an entirely new scripting language that is much simpler to use than the old JavaScript based scripting language, because it ...
Release 0.12.2 with an important bugfix
Release 0.12.2 fixes a severe bug in how bi-directional ports of subcircuits are behaving during simulation.
Release 0.12.1 revoked
Unfortunately, we have to revoke release 0.12.1 as it turned out that it produces more new problems than it actually solves. Issue #227 seems to need an enti...
Release 0.12.1 with an important bugfix
Release 0.12.0 fixes a severe bug in how bi-directional ports of subcircuits are behaving during simulation.
Antares Web <iframe> Integration
In the past couple of weeks, we’ve put a lot of time and effort into pushing Antares Web to the next level.
Release 0.12.0 with bugfixes and new features
Release 0.12.0 fixes some bugs and brings some new interesting features, especially colored subcircuit symbols and the possibility to move folders within a p...
Online textbook sample with Antares
The Antares web project has made quite progress recently, and I’m happy to be able to show you a first teaser of how online textbook pages could look like us...
Release 0.11.0 with new component “Bit Extender”
Besides the new “Bit Extender” component, release 0.11.0 also contains some other new features and improvments, as well as an important bugfix in the undo/re...
Sharing Antares Assets
There is now a public GitHub project where users can publish and share their circuits, projects and libraries.
Happy anniversary release 0.10.0
I am proud and happy to present today the tenth Antares minor release!
Release 0.9.0 with new features
Sharing circuits, DIL package support, 64 bit, decimal signal representation, and a fundamental rework of unconnected input handling: Release 0.9.0 brings a ...
Release 0.8.0 with some cool improvements
Release 0.8.0 brings a couple of new features and improvements, as well as a fix for a regression bug preventing some components from being rotated.
Release 0.7.0 with new components!
Relase 0.7.0 brings some new cool components like joystick and “real switch”, and other features like logic gate input negation or variable LED sizes.
Bugfix Release 0.6.1
Release 0.6.1 contains a lot of bug fixes, including one regarding inital simulation states of wires connected to pull resistors.
Stability Release 0.6.0
Besides a couple of new features, Release 0.6.0 contains a lot of bug fixed that improve the stability of Antares significantly.
Release 0.5.2 with a critical bugfix
Release 0.5.2 contains a fix for a critical bug that prevented users from setting properties of wires (in the circuit editor) and ports (in the symbol editor...
Release 0.5.1 with critical bugfixes
Release 0.5.1 contains fixes for some critical bugs, especially for bugs that resulted in saving old snapshots instead of the current circuit, and wrong simu...
Release 0.5.0 with true bi-directional splitting
It took me quite a long time to implement it, and it was hard, but finally here it is: Antares now features true bi-directional splitting!
Release 0.4.1 with critical bugfixes
Release 0.4.1 contains fixes for some critical bugs, especially for some bugs that resulted in the dreaded “Unexpected error” dialog, mainly occuring after u...
Release 0.4.0 with quasi-analog components
Besides many smaller features and bugfixes, the 0.4.0 release contains in particular the new quasi-analog components “Pull Resistor”, “Transistor”, “Ground” ...
2020
Release 0.3.0 with dark mode
Along with lots of small features and bugfixes, this release brings the new optional dark mode and a new “break” components that allows you to single-step th...
Oscilloscope preview
I’ve been working on adding an oscilloscope component to Antares for some time now. Its purpose is todisplay signal waveforms in a circuit. Although it is qu...
Release 0.2.0 is available!
Along with lots of small features and bugfixes, this release contains a major rework of the entire undo/redo system, which also required deep changes in the ...
Release 0.1.0
After more than 4 years of development, the first public release of Antares is finally available.