I, and judging from the mailing lists and forums many others, are frustrated by the difficulty of finding spice models that are compatible with open-source circuit simulators. Common replies are "you don't need that level of detail" or "find a model library buried in the vendor's website, pick a model for a part similar to yours, then alter any lines containing X and replace .subckt Y with a reference to your Z". But that's annoying, especially for users who are new to these simulators. I started collecting and adapting models to be used with my program, http://mrfilter.sourceforge.net , but then realized that the problem is much larger than my single app, and a comprehensive library would badly bloat my downloads.
So my question is, should I make a new project which is a library of models to use with open source simulators? I think that there is a need for such a thing, but would it be a good idea? Licensing should not be a problem; most vendors license their models to permit redistribution. Would it be better to incorporate these into some existing project than to start a new one? For that matter, has somebody already done this and I'm just duplicating effort? And finally, what extension should a spice model's filename have? There sadly seems to be no consensus to that last question. -Alan Somers _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
