Re: gEDA-user: NE 555 and simulation issue

["W.H. Kalpa Pathum" <callkalpa@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 9:43 PM, Dave McGuire <mcguire@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mar 2, 2010, at 11:08 AM, W.H. Kalpa Pathum wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>  For simple circuit simulation, you can use Ktechlab (directly su -c
>>>>>  'yum install -y ktechlab').
>>>>>  It's not very fast, not very accurate, but very graphic and simple. It
>>>>>  may fits for your purpose...
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> wow this app suits my requirement. Thanks
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for all you foryour quick and friendly responses. KTechlab was
>>>> more that enough for my requirement. It seems that the other apps
>>>> including gEDA are move advanced and need a lot of effort in learning.
>>>>
>>>> We will be having a module on circuit simulation in near future. They
>>>> use Spice and I hope to use ng-spice as I'm much more interested in
>>>> FOSS.
>>>
>>>  Urr?  SPICE has always been freely available.  I remember downloading it
>>> and building it on a VAX easily twenty years ago.
>>>
>> But they don't offer a linux version I guess.
>
>  I'm pretty sure I built it under Ultrix, which is an early BSD UNIX
> derivative.  I know I built a FORTRAN version under VMS, but I'm pretty sure
> I built one on Ultrix.
>
>  SPICE 3f5 is the latest Berkeley release, and this is (if I recall
> correctly) the release from which ng-spice is derived.  3f5 does build under
> Linux, I think.

that's news, thanks :-)
>
>  But regardless, ng-spice is pretty much "real" SPICE, so you're on the
> right track!  Lots of companies have grabbed the free SPICE, made
> vendor-specific enhancements, and released it as a binary-only product
> (usually for one specific company's rickety, proprietary operating system)
> and often not for free.  This doesn't mean "SPICE isn't free". ;)
>
>           -Dave
>
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> Dave McGuire
> Port Charlotte, FL
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