Chris Bartram wrote: >>Looking at the QUCS site it seems rather basic and incomplete. Have >>you tried switcherCAD? > > > I'm very aware of SwitcherCAD, and have more than 25 years experience of > using > Spice and similar software in an analogue and radiofrequency/microwave > circuit design environment. > > While I'm happy to accept that the web site rather underplays it's > usefulness, > QUCS has features which I find very attractive. Certainly, like any software, > it has weaknesses, but it also has its strengths. As an example, it's one of > the very few Open Source circuit design packages to allow the use of Harmonic > Balance analysis. > > Of course, it also runs under Linux, which suits my attitude to computing! >
Which is the same as my attitude. switcherCAD does run nicely under wine - it's about the only windoze program I run right now. I used to use Oregano but that seems to have drifted to a halt and there are plenty of other GUI based OS apps based on spice. I guess it depends which features you particularly need. Harmonic balance analyis and transmission line support don't figure on my list ;-) Ian
