On Dec 8, 2008, at 12:29 AM, al davis wrote: > On Saturday 06 December 2008, John Doty wrote: >> Interestingly, if you go to that >> manufacturer's web site, there are no Verilog models at all: >> SPICE rules. Go figure. > > They need spice models so the PSpice users can use their models. > The published models need to be usable by the lowest of the > tools. > > Some of those models were initially developed in Verilog-AMS on > Cadence tools, then translated to Spice format for the public.
I can understand the motivation to publish the SPICE models. But why don't these guys publish the untranslated models too? > > One popular way to develop Spice C models now is to write in > Verilog-A, then compile with ADMS, then manually clean up the > code. > > It's kind of like how a lot of software is initially developed > on Linux because it is a better development environment, then > ported to Windoze so they can sell it, and the marketing dept > doesn't see enough of a market for a Linux version. > > > _______________________________________________ > geda-dev mailing list > geda-dev@moria.seul.org > http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-dev > John Doty Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd. http://www.noqsi.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ geda-dev mailing list geda-dev@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-dev
