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

[Bill Cox <bill@viasic.com>]

Terry Porter wrote:

> On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 10:41:05 -0500
> Bill Cox <bill@viasic.com> wrote:
>
>  
> > 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
> >
> >
> >
> >    
> I've been using gschem-->gnetlist(gnet-spice-sdb.scm)->ngspice(with readline) for about the last year and it works well for me.
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I've heard this works well for flat designs, but I'm doing larger 
designs that have busses, hierarchy, and arrays of instances.  I also 
needed other features, like default base tie-offs for 3-pin nmos and 
pmos devices, and global bus symbols for VDD and VSS.  Basically, I 
needed support for hierarchical CMOS mixed signal IC design.

Bill