Thanks everyone for responding. ALL of the information is very usefull!
regards Peter Krause TO R & D GPTDesigns ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jon Elson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Protel EDA Discussion List" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005 4:36 AM Subject: Re: [PEDA] Protel 99SE Simulation > > > Peter Krause wrote: > > >>From reading the thread from Tastingfan, is there a suggested website > >where to 'learn' on line about protel simulation. > > > >The manual is ok, however, some 'real' views would be great. > > > > > The manual really only addresses the interface, both schematic entry and > viewing of output. If you really want to understand the simulator, you > need to know SPICE. That is the underlying simulator engine. There are > a number of books on it, but what I know is pretty old. I would hope better > documents would be written that the awful stuff that was available when I > learned it. When I was playing with SPICE, on a microVAX computer > in the early 90's, UC Berkeley was still marginally supporting it, and I > had access to some people there. I actually found a bug and fixed it, with > the help of someone there. But, Berkeley no longer supports SPICE, it > is kind of an abandoned open source software project. Berkeley did publish > a bunch of papers on specific aspects of the simulator. They were > really hard > to use as a reference. I bought a book from a guy operating as Oholiab > Research that was very helpful. I looked up Oholiab and got pages of stuff > referring to the Book of Exodus, and there is a lot of spice in there, too, > so I was not able to find anything that looked like the same outfit. > There are a number of simulator variables that help when simulating > anything that has fast transients. I did some work simulating off-line > inverters, basically logic inverters running from 400 V DC supplies with > 40 ns transients, (10 ^10 V/second) and SPICE doesn't handle this well > at all without adjusting a number of the simulation parameters. > > There are a number of SPICE-related projects on sourceforge.net, but > I don't know if any of them have reccommended reading lists. > > Jon > > > > ____________________________________________________________ > You are subscribed to the PEDA discussion forum > > To Post messages: > mailto:[email protected] > > Unsubscribe and Other Options: > http://techservinc.com/mailman/listinfo/peda_techservinc.com > > Browse or Search Old Archives (2001-2004): > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > > Browse or Search Current Archives (2004-Current): > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.10.10/73 - Release Date: 15/08/2005 > > ____________________________________________________________ You are subscribed to the PEDA discussion forum To Post messages: mailto:[email protected] Unsubscribe and Other Options: http://techservinc.com/mailman/listinfo/peda_techservinc.com Browse or Search Old Archives (2001-2004): http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] Browse or Search Current Archives (2004-Current): http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
