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 > > 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 > > Stuart Brorson wrote: > > >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 > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > >
