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

[sdb@cloud9.net (Stuart Brorson)]

Sorry if this is a duplicate e-mail; the first one got stomped on when
I tried to send it out, I think . . . . 

Tclspice uses the ngspice-devel list for communication.  It has been
pretty dead for a couple of months.  However, tclspice is under active
development and is run by a guy named Stefan Jones who works for
MultiGig, a UK company:

http://www.multigig.com/

I recently submitted my readline patch to Stefan; I haven't heard
anything about it for a week or more.  In another week I will try to
ping him again.  Meanwhile, if you want a full-featured version of
tclspice with the readline patch incorporated, I can make it available
on my website.  Otherwise, wait for Stefan to make another release.

In any event, tclspice is a good choice as far as Open Source/Free
Software SPICEs go.  There are indeed people using it.

Stuart

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> 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
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> Stuart Brorson wrote:
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> >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
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> >>Hi.
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> >>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.
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> >>Anyone out there had any luck with open-source SPICE?
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> >>Thanks,
> >>Bill
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