On Wednesday 03 May 2006 14:24, Markus Feldmann wrote: > does anybody know a schematic Editor? > gschem seems to be very old and unstable. > > I am working on Debian.
There are two that I know of: "gschem" and "oregano". "gschem" makes nicer schematics and has a more complete symbol library. The user interface takes some getting used to, but it is not bad after you do. To simulate, you need an external translator "gnetlist", which doesn't work very well. You make the schematic, save it, then run gnetlist with the option "-g spice_sdb" which gives you a first cut. If any nets have text names, they will be preserved, so you need a recent development snapshot of gnucap that supports text node names. Sometimes, the netlists require minor editing. "oregano" is much more newbie friendly, but is more limited in its capability. It extracts the netlist automatically, and runs gnucap through its menus. In both, there are some symbols that do not correctly translate to a netlist. In oregano, most that have a counterpart translate reasonably, or can be configured to translate reasonably. The configuration is based on a template that is user definable. The "gnetlist" translator is written in an all-verb style that requires explicit translation of every detail, so only a small subset of the symbols are translated. Those that are not supported require programming in guile to support. Overall, I think gschem is better suited to the experienced user, who is willing to do a little hacking, and oregano is better suited to someone with less experience, such as a student. Neither are as slick as Multi-sim, which hides too much. I think oregano is more newbie-friendly than PSpice. Both are in Debian. The version of gnucap in debian is not the latest. Actually, it is the latest "stable version", but there have been significant changes, so I recommend the development snapshot, which you need to compile and install the hard way. Debian stable usually has very old versions. If you want something reasonably up to date, use either the testing or unstable versions of Debian. _______________________________________________ Help-gnucap mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnucap
