Re: gEDA-user: Spice files

[Karl Edler <kte608@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 07 April 2008 13:36, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:
> On Mon, 07 Apr 2008 09:17:20 -0400, Karl Edler wrote:
> > After a little poking around I found the following website full of SPICE
> > models:
> > http://www.cadence.com/products/orcad/downloads/pspice_models/index.aspx
> >
> > It might be worth a look.
>
> Two questions spring to my mind:
>
> 1) are these models compatible to gnucap and/or ngspice?
>
> 2) what about the copyright?
> The terms of use the website footer says:
>
> /------http://www.cadence.com/terms.aspx section 2.1 ----
> The material you are downloading is copyrighted by Cadence Design
> Systems, Inc. and its licensors. All rights reserved. This work may not
> be copied, modified, re-published, uploaded, executed, or distributed in
> any way, in any medium, whether in whole or in part except pursuant to
> express license terms agreed upon by Cadence and you.
> \----------
>
> I am not fluent in legalese, but this does not seem to prevent the
> distribution of a download script...
>
> Just my two cents.
> ---<(kaimartin)>---

I have used some of the models here under ngspice. It seems that if it 
is "PSpice" compatible then it also works under ngspice. What the limits of 
compatability are, however, is not known by me.

Karl


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