Way cool Tom and thanks for sharing!! I'm eager to give this a go - at the very least, I may learn something.
73 On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 8:26 AM, Tom Russo <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't know how many folks on this list ever do any circuit simulation, > but since my last year has been totally focused on getting this release > out, > I'm going to post this here. > > -------- > Announcing the Open Source Release of Xyce 6.0 > > November 5, 2013 - Xyce, Sandia National Laboratories' SPICE-compatible > parallel circuit simulator, is available for free public download for the > first time. Xyce has been developed internally at Sandia National > Laboratories and funded by the National Nuclear Security Administration's > Advanced Strategic Computing (ASC) Program. By open-sourcing Xyce, the > code > team hopes to foster external collaborations and solicit feedback from the > simulation community. > > Parallel Implementation > Xyce was designed as a parallel simulation code. Primarily, the > parallelism > is based around a message-passing implementation (MPI). Parallel scaling > is very problem-specific, but for certain problems Xyce has shown > scalability > out to hundreds of processes. > > Xyce is not SPICE > One of the goals of the Xyce development team has been for Xyce to be > SPICE-compatible. However, Xyce is not a derivative of SPICE. It was > designed and written from scratch. > > Device Model Support > As a SPICE-compatible tool, Xyce supports a canonical set of compact > models, > including the various BSIMs, PSP, VBIC and FBH. Additionally, a large > number > non-traditional models are implemented, which support neuron simulation and > reaction networks. Behavioral modeling is supported by a powerful > expression > library, and Verilog-A models can be incorporated with a model compiler. > > Analysis options > As a SPICE-compatible tool, Xyce supports standard analysis methods such as > steady-state(DCOP), transient(TRAN), and small-signal frequency domain > (AC). > A number of more exotic analysis methods have also been implemented, > including > Harmonic Balance (HB), Multi-Time PDE (MPDE), and model-order reduction > methods (MOR). > > Solvers > Xyce uses the Trilinos solver library, an open-source solver library also > under development at Sandia. Trilinos is an effort to develop and > implement > robust algorithms and enabling technologies using modern object-oriented > software design, while still leveraging the value of established libraries > such as PETSc, Metis/ParMetis, SuperLU, Aztec, the BLAS and LAPACK. In > addition, a number of circuit-specific solvers have been developed for > Xyce, > specifically, including the KLU direct solver. > > C++ code design > Similar to Trilinos, Xyce is written in C++, with modular, flexible design > as > a goal. Where appropriate, Xyce applies abstract interfaces to enable easy > development of different analysis types, solvers and models. > > Portability > Xyce is supported on Unix-like operating systems such as Linux and OS X, > and > on Windows. > > Opportunities > The goal of the Xyce development team is to seek new opportunities and > solicit > feedback. Our experience has been that new collaborators, new benchmarks > and > external feedback can be a valuable starting point for code improvements. > > Open Source > Xyce is available under the open-source license GPL version 3.0. > > Download > For more information about Xyce, and to download the code, visit the new > Xyce > Home Page at http://xyce.sandia.gov. > > Sandia National Laboratories is a multi-program laboratory managed and > operated > by Sandia Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Lockheed Martin > Corporation, > for the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security > Administration > under contract DE-AC04-94AL85000. > ------- > > -- > Tom Russo KM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ > Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236 > http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM > echo "prpv_a'rfg_cnf_har_cvcr" | sed -e 's/_/ /g' | tr [a-m][n-z] > [n-z][a-m] > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Xastir mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir > -- Casper ARC - W7VNJ http://www.casperarc.net <http://wyominghamcon.org> _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
