Re: gEDA-user: What opensource spice to use?

[Bill Cox <bill@viasic.com>]

Thanks for the info (to both you and John).  I'll try it out.  The 
message board is completely empty, so I just wanted to make sure there 
were real users out there before starting to work with tclspice.

Bill

Stuart Brorson wrote:

> I've used both LTSpice & tclspice.  LTSpice is undoubtedly the more
> full featured of the two.  However, it is closed source & runs on
> Windoze.  Not that that is a bad thing, it's just that my main
> working platform is Linux.  You can run LTSpice under wine just fine,
> but it isn't native.  I have never used 3rd party vendor models with
> LTSpice, so I don't know how easy that is. 
> As for tclspice, I use it most of the time since I know it pretty
> well.  (After all, I have been contributing to the project.  My latest
> contribution was to integrate GNU readline into ngspice's CLI.  The
> old CLI was kinda crufty. . . . )   It does everything I want it to do,
> and I particularly like the feature that you can write TCL scripts
> to automate a SPICE simulation.  I have used this to do complex
> circuit optimization.  Ya can't do that with LTSpice.  OTOH, I can't
> speak for the quality/modernity of the device models.
>
> Good work on gnetman.  I will try it out soon.
>
> Stuart
>
>  
> > Hi.
> >
> > I've got a nice path working for me from gschem -> gnetman -> LTSpice. 
> > I'm pretty happy with LTSpice under wine, but TCL-Spice sounds pretty cool.
> >
> > Anyone out there had any luck with open-source SPICE?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Bill
> >
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