--- In [email protected], Chris Bartram <ya...@...> wrote: > > > If you insist on a GUI, the only real choice is Qucs. > > I'd agree with that wholeheartedly. Although like much Open Source SW, QUCS > is > a work in progress, it's already more versatile than most variants of SPICE. > > In my work as an RF circuit designer, I've found it very powerful, and have > almost ceased using a well known piece of RF/microwave analysis/synthesis > software in favour of it. The only feature I currently miss is the ability to > run harmonic balance sims. properly. In my limited experience, simulation of > normal analogue and mixed analogue/digital circuitry works as well as most > expensive mixed mode SPICEs and better than some of the cheap ones. > > It has always struck me that as the QUCS development team have the > integration > of schematic capture and PCB layout in their roadmap, it would be worth the > Kicad development team looking to see if the two packages could be integrated. > > Incidentally, AFAIK SPICE isn't Open Source. Unless something has changed in > the last couple of years, copyright for the core SPICE source code is held be > the University of California, Berkley. > > Chris Bartram > Hi, The only problem with merging kicad and QUCS is that the latter is written in QT but the former uses Wxwidgets libraries. If Kicad could be ported to QT it would also be aligned with Ktechlab which is also written in QT. All three are written in C++, but the team doing the porting would have to have extensive knowledge of the required libraries.
David.
