Re: gEDA-user: Which software for simulation?

[sdb@cloud9.net (Stuart Brorson)]

Hi --

I have had success with LTSpice running under wine.  LTSpice (also
called SwitcherCAD III) is a heavy-duty SPICE simulator which Linear
Tech released for free as a sales tool.  It has a schematic capture
front end, but I bypass that & use gschem instead.  I then import the
SPICE netlist as a .cir file & simulate it.

LTSpice is becoming very popular with both amateurs as well as
professionals.  There are lots of posts related to it in
sci.electronics.cad, and the program's author monitors that group to
answer questions.

You can get LTSpice at:

http://www.linear.com/software/

Run the installer under wine.

I also have a HOWTO talking about gEDA, SPICE, and LTSpice
on my website:

http://www.brorson.com/gEDA/SPICE/

My website also holds an advanced backend for gnetlist so you can do
more advanced SPICE stuff than with the vanilla netlister. 

HTH,

Stuart

> 
> Hi all,
> I was wondering which software is people using for circuit simulation.
> I found ngspice and gnucap, but ngspice seems to be dropped down in
> flavour of gnucap, and gnucap's development seems to be not quite
> active.
> Gschem have the backend for spice, so using ngspice is easy, but it
> doesn't have any for gnucap. 
> I tried to use the spice backend for gnucap, but I fail: in a first try,
> a very simple circuit with a transistor, gnucap needs "substrate node"
> after collector, base, and emitter nodes.
> 
> It seems like people is using spice, but.. is there any spice-like
> software still alive?
> 
> So, please, could anyone tell me what you are using for simulation?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Carlos
> 
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