On 21.07.2016 23:16, Chris Pavlina wrote: > Really, really nice! I made it do a thing! > https://misc.c4757p.com/kicad_sim.png > > I feel bad to provide a bug report on my very first communcation on > this, but... found one: not sure if this sort of thing is actually > standard SPICE or an LTspice extension, but I tried parameterizing a > component value, setting a resistor's value to {R} - that sort of thing > leads to irrecoverable lockups here. >
Hi Chris, Two quick questions: - Do you have NGspice compiled with XSPICE support? - Could you run eeschema with forced "C" locale? Tom > On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 09:37:57PM +0200, Tomasz Wlostowski wrote: >> Hi, >> >> As some of you have noticed, we've been working on a "secret" feature >> during the hackathon at CERN. The feature we're talking about is an >> integrated circuit simulator. Currently it features: >> - Seamless integration into schematic editor, >> - AC/Transient/DC sweep simulations, >> - Voltage probing from the schematics, >> - Live tuning of component values. >> >> A video demonstrating the capabilities of the new simulator is available >> on Tom's YouTube channel [1]. >> >> The code is currently available in the ngspice branch on Tom's GitHub >> [2] for review & testing. It's a big feature, so we didn't want to push >> it immediately to the product branch. We'll greatly appreciate your >> feedback! >> >> The simulator uses ngspice [3] as the Spice kernel. We'd like to thank >> ngspice developers for providing a DLL interface which made seamless >> integration of ngspice into Kicad possible. >> >> In order to get started: >> - install ngspice shared library (is not provided by many Linux distros, >> Arch Linux is a known exception, so you might have to compile it from >> the sources with --with-ngshared --enable-xspice options). Windows >> DLLs, msys2 PKGBUILD & binary packages (to be included soon in >> the official msys2 repo, currently merged to >> https://github.com/Alexpux/MINGW-packages/) & Linux script to build the >> library are available at [4]. >> - compile eeschema with -DKICAD_SPICE=ON option, >> - have a look at some examples in demos/simulation directory. >> >> Happy simulating, >> Tom >> >> [1] https://youtu.be/A2_-hdRcf4U >> [2] https://github.com/twlostow/kicad-dev/tree/ngspice >> [3] http://ngspice.sourceforge.net/ >> [4] https://orson.net.pl/pub/libngspice >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> Post to : [email protected] >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
