On Saturday 10 January 2009, Peter Clifton wrote: > "spice" doesn't as such exist. The closest open source is > "ngspice", which is its own project - although does come > under the gEDA umbrella.
Actually, there are a bunch of open source Spice programs. You can still download spice-3f5 from Berkeley, but I don't have the link. It's old and now suffers from bit-rot. The old Fortran version 2g6 is also available, and due to its age also suffers from bit-rot. Having said that, ngspice is a maintained derivative of 3f5, so if you want an open source spice (a true spice), ngspice is the one to get. gnucap is a modern simulator that has some enhancements and new technology that has happened more recently than spice, that provides some improvements over spice. For the newbies .... "bit-rot" means that it worked fine in its day, but has not been maintained, so it might have trouble on newer systems, like "Linux". _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
