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 > > >
