Csanyi Pal wrote: > "John P. Doty" <[email protected]> writes: > > >> Csanyi Pal wrote: >> >>> I'm using gedasuite20080328 installed from tarball. >>> >>> When I'm running: >>> gnetlist -v -g spice-sdb -o WPB_F18_PCB_v2_Prog.net >>> WPB_F18_PCB_v2_Prog.sch >gnetlist_error >>> >>> I get the messages: >>> >>> >> Much, perhaps all, of your trouble seems to be due to your use of the >> toxic IEC417/ground.sym, which is not a proper ground symbol. In >> general, you should not be using the IEC417 library symbols in >> schematics: they are only for block diagrams. Stuart fixed the ground >> symbol anyway (it's the most likely to cause trouble) at the January >> code sprint, but I suppose it hasn't made it to the version you're >> using. Use power/gnd-1.sym. >> > > Thanks, I used Power rails/gnd-1.sym and the error gone. > > I note that using a SPICE netlister on a schematic intended for PCB layout is not generally useful. A SPICE simulation needs sources that aren't in the schematic, and SPICE will think your connectors are FETs (J) and capacitors (C). In cases like this, I tend to snip out the piece I really need to understand and make a separate simulation schematic.
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