John Doty <j...@noqsi.com> wrote: > > On Apr 7, 2010, at 11:54 AM, al davis wrote: > >> On Wednesday 07 April 2010, Stuart Brorson wrote: >>>> Do you foresee any other difficulties? ... aside from >>>> simulating a hydraulic circuit with spice or generating a >>>> layout. >>> >>> Actually, my first thought was: What kinds of simulations >>> (if any) does one do in hydraulics? Are there any standard >>> simulators? If so, generating a netlist to feed to such a >>> simulator might be an interesting hobby project. >> >> If simulation means Spice to you, you are 20 years behind. > > Unless you have deep pockets (and even for some who do), SPICE is today's > simulator. I know you don't like this, but it's the truth. > >> >> Looking to the past ... Simulations of things like this were >> (and are) often done on a proprietary commercial simulator >> "Saber", using a proprietary modeling language "Mast". >> Matlab/Simulink is also popular (and proprietary). >> >> Looking forward ... Things like this can be done very well in >> Verilog-AMS, which has a published standard, cleaner syntax, and >> several commercial implementations. Many users of Saber and >> Mast are switching over. Gnucap provides partial support for >> Verilog-AMS, and is working on more complete support. > > But that's tomorrow. > > Another approach you'll hate is to use the symbolic capabilities of a > computer algebra system to analyze a design. See > http://www.noqsi.com/images/pareg.nb.pdf for an example hot off the press. > Unfortunately, the free software offerings don't seem to be up to this yet. > Fortunately, Mathematica isn't as pricey as fancy EDA tools, and gEDA can > feed it just fine. > Umm, now that you mention Mathematica: Do you know of a way of feeding from gEDA to Open Source computer math packages like octave or scilab? Not that i'd currently feel a personal need of it, but i'm curious. Such information often came in handy when i expected it the least beforehand...
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