On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 06:53:32 -0500 Bill Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Terry Porter wrote: > > >On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 10:41:05 -0500 > >Bill Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. -- Kind Regards Terry * See my Gnu/Linux EDA webpage at : http://milkstone.d2.net.au/ * Free Software provided by GNU; http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-for-freedom.html
