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

[Terry Porter <techman@d2.net.au>]

On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 06:53:32 -0500
Bill Cox <bill@viasic.com> wrote:

> 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.
> >
> > 
> >  
> >
> 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

My own usage of Ngspice has been *nothing* like this. At a scale of 0 to 100, I'd rate myself a 0.001 spice user!

Stuarts patch has compiled for me, so I'm moving to Tclspice now anyway. Ngspice is definetely a dead end.


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Terry
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