Re: gEDA-user: newbie questions

[Eric Daine <daine_ep@xxxxxxxxxx>]

This was posted a while back on this list,
I managed to play with spice a bit with its help.

Good section on first steps with ngspice

http://www-mdp.eng.cam.ac.uk/urop05/files/gedalib/starting_gEDA.pdf

Good luck to you,
ED



Ron Crummett wrote:

> Hi all -
>
> I am an electrical engineering student and will be taking a class in 
> communication circuits next semester.  My teacher has told me that we 
> will be working a lot with WinSpice and, well, those first three 
> little letters tell me that I probably won't be doing much of THAT on 
> my Debian machine.  So...
>
> I am looking for a Linux-compliant freeware circuit simulation program 
> similar to WinSpice.  I have stumbled across gEDA in my search and it 
> looks like it might be the answer, particularly ngspice.  Problem is, 
> I have no idea of how to use these programs and all the documentation 
> I find on the gEDA pages seem to be for the PCB layout programs and such.
>
> So my questions are:
> -is ngspice what I am looking for?  A Linux circuit simulator?
> -where can I find documentation for ngspice?
>
> (the second question is, of course, assuming the answer to the first 
> is affirmative.)
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Ron