spice

[gnu]

Hello,
I'm searching for a free spice software for analog design, for windows
and linux stations.
Regards.

 

[John S. Dyson]

Hello,
I'm searching for a free spice software for analog design, for windows
and linux stations.

Take a look at LTSPICE available from www.linear.com for
a spice that works on NT/2000, etc. For Linux, there
are some spices (e.g. sourceforge.net.) You'll probably
have to compile it, and frankly, it wont' be as good as
the cool spice LTSPICE.

John

 

[Terry Pinnell]

Hello,
I'm searching for a free spice software for analog design, for windows
and linux stations.

See my notes and links to some 60 ECAD programs at
http://www.terrypin.dial.pipex.com/ECADList.html

Terry Pinnell
Hobbyist, West Sussex, UK

 

[Helmut Sennewald]

Take a look at LTSPICE available from www.linear.com for
a spice that works on NT/2000, etc.

Hello John and gnu,
LTSPICE runs under Wine in Linux too.

For Linux, there
are some spices (e.g. sourceforge.net.) You'll probably
have to compile it, and frankly, it wont' be as good as
the cool spice LTSPICE.

I fully agree, LTSPICE is unbeatable.

Best regards,
Helmut

PS: There is a LTSPICE newsgroup.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LTspice/

 

[John S. Dyson]

Hello John and gnu,
LTSPICE runs under Wine in Linux too.

I don't like how LTSPICE runs under Free Unixes. It is clunky, and
really SHOULD be ported to Unix.

John

 

[Ken Smith]

I don't like how LTSPICE runs under Free Unixes. It is clunky, and
really SHOULD be ported to Unix.

No, a special version to run under SuSE 8.1 that contains special codes to
get around the bug I found in the display drivers on my machine and that
contains models for quantum physics is what is really needed.

 

[John S. Dyson]

No, a special version to run under SuSE 8.1 that contains special codes to
get around the bug I found in the display drivers on my machine and that
contains models for quantum physics is what is really needed.

It does make sense for LTSPICE to be natively runnable on a Free Unix (Linux
would be a good choice.) I do suspect that the porting effort would be
heinous, because of the differences between the various X windows APIs
and the Windows APIs.

Even though I have run LTSPICE under Wine, I still reboot my workstation
to run LTSPICE under Win2000 because of better interactive performance.

Again, I understand numerous reasons why LTSPICE hasnt' been ported to
the better Unix clone OSes, but I believe that it is worthwhile to prod
the wonderful developer of LTSPICE...

John

 

[Ken Smith]

It does make sense for LTSPICE to be natively runnable on a Free Unix (Linux
would be a good choice.) I do suspect that the porting effort would be
heinous, because of the differences between the various X windows APIs
and the Windows APIs.

Perhaps a non-GUI version would be easier to get them to do. They may be
able to just recompile the spice engine and leave the GUI part off. This
would allow people to do there own GUI as a bash script

Even though I have run LTSPICE under Wine, I still reboot my workstation
to run LTSPICE under Win2000 because of better interactive performance.

Under SuSE 8.1 and wine the performance of the GUI is fast enough for me.
For that matter it is fast that the crank powered box I use at work.

 

[gnu]

Thanks to all who reply,
I found Spice opus also, wich is for both linux and windows. i need soem
readings to choose between ltspice and opus.

 

[John Woodgate]

I read in sci.electronics.design that gnu <reply_on_the_forum_please@?.?

wrote (in <[email protected]>) about 'spice', on Mon, 13 Sep 2004:
Thanks to all who reply,
I found Spice opus also, wich is for both linux and windows. i need soem
readings to choose between ltspice and opus.

Since LTSpice is free, you lose little by trying it. If Opus is also
free, you are like the proverbial starving donkey midway between two
identical piles of hay. But you can toss a coin.

 

[gnu]

Since LTSpice is free,

LTspice is free for non comercial use i think.

you lose little by trying it. If Opus is also
free, you are like the proverbial starving donkey midway between two
identical piles of hay. But you can toss a coin.

lol
I'm using Eagle Schematic software and i found how to export the ulp
to simulate it on opus so i will not draw the schematic twice. Annother
reason is that opus works fine on linux.