Hehe Ian... My answer was very much coloured by the initial question - whats out there for Linux... To run in companionship with the Linux KiCad and on Linux.
Wine? I run the Texas Instrument package "Tina" with Wine myself so I know the pro's and cons with Wine. I would not recommend to rely on any Windows software running under Wine, simply because of the unpredictable way some Windows executables use DLL's etc. Tina runs mostly fine and I'm sure Switchcad will do so as well. Some programs refuse to install under Wine while other unceremonially goes tits up when stumplin on an "oops". Also, choosing commercial softwares for homebrewer purpose running WindowsXX, tend to end up with more or less restricted licensing agreements or even functionality. So far, I have not ran into a brick wall in QUCS except for the total stonewalling if I need mixed mode simulations. I still retain a copy of dear old "SPLICE" running on my beloved VAX/VMS box if I have to mix analog and digital junk... I'm reasonably well acquainted with these packages after I ported the Chipmunk tools to FreeBSD ( 1995 ? ). I also had to pick a fight with the first C versions of Spice3 during the mid/end 1980's when I tried to compile the lot with Lattice C and in Dos4 or Dos5 ( I think .. ). I resorted back to Spice 2G6 and my Vax 11/750 running F77... Regarding harmonics... This is a thing we ought to highlight more frequently to design away a lot of problems with high frequency designs. It's all right to do LF designs and "low frequency" digital designs but many peeps are toying with 1GHz+ and tend to forget to treat the designs as RF designs... Surprise surprise. Oregano. Yes, looks like Oregano died. I do recommend a look on the GEDA development as there are some tools for integrating Spice with schematic capture. There was also an earlier attempt - "SpiceCad" but the development stopped many years ago now and the only surviving binary seems to be in ELF format. //Dan On Wednesday 10 January 2007 20:18, Ian bell wrote: > Dan Andersson wrote: > > Ian, > > > > I looked at the switchercadIII file but?! It's a weird file format - a > > file ending with "EXE"? > > It's a windows native but it runs fine under wine > > > QUCS is a full non-nuted software with Linux and Wintendo support. > > > > Look at the transmission line support in QUCS, nice! > > Not of interest to me. > > > The QUCS package is an Open source Package. If you NEEED an extra > > function, you are welcome to make the necessary additions... Try that > > with a proprietary packagelike switchercad... > > Please don't lecture me on the merits of open source. I have run linux > for ten years and I started this group. Please don't assume that > everyone is a consumate programmer who can hack code with ease. The > creator of switcherCAD is a very nice appoachable man who listens to > what users want and very quickly implements it. > > > Besides, QUCS contains probably 99% of what you peeps wil need for ham > > purposes. > > So does Oregano and loads of other spice based FOSS programs with > GUIs. What makes QUCS so special? > > Ian -- Dan Andersson, M0DFI [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
