LTSpice from Linear Technology is not free-free, but it's free-as-in-beer and it's tuned to run under Wine (it actually detects that it's running under Wine and changes its behavior). It has been 100% trouble-free for me. I prefer it because their algorithms have been completely re-written to optimize for switching supplies, and as a consequence they model RF oscillator start-up much better than other SPICE programs I've used. The only real drawback is that (for some reason!!!) they only include models of Linear Technology ICs, and they don't stay current with all the latest MOSFETs.
But it's easy enough to put in someone else's model, if you can get it. Ditto EagleCAD. Also not free-free, but they have a native Linux version, and their free-as-in-beer version is only crippled to the extent that the circuit board is limited in size and to two layers, and doesn't come with an auto-router. Their $$ version is quite nice to use, even if it happens to be at the bottom of the ladder as far as pro EDA software goes. I've been using both of these products professionally for years, and they've served me quite well. On Mon, 2011-12-05 at 21:35 -0800, Denis Heidtmann wrote: > I am trying to do some (rather simple) spice simulations. > > I have all the gEDA packages (ubuntu). gschem (schematic capture) seems to > work, but blurts out many error messages. I have not yet tried to do the > net list (gnetlist) because of those error messages, and I am not sure > which of the myriad of netlist standards I should use. Anybody here have > some experience with these tools? > > Thanks, > > -Denis > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug -- Tim Wescott www.wescottdesign.com Control & Communications systems, circuit & software design. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
