[SI-LIST] Re: Info on Spice package
- From: sdb@xxxxxxxxxx (Stuart Brorson)
- To: kbbuchanan@xxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 17:09:01 -0500 (EST)
Hi Kevin ,
> I'm a student at U-Mass. I'm looking for a spice package that has a
> reasonable cost. I have found one called 'B2 Spice A/D' by a company
> called Beige Bag Software for about $350. The price seems to good to be t=
> =3D
> rue.
Naw -- there are lots of "student grade" SPICE simulators out there
which are quite cheap. Remember that most of these simulators are
just Berkeley SPICE code with some bugfixes & a GUI on top, sold by
some company or another.
> I'm looking at using this package to learn more about simulation
> with spice and would be applying it to do transmission line modeling.
> Can anyone provide any info about this package.
>
> Also, can anyone recommend a package that would satisfy the low cost
> requirement. I would also be using it to model parasitics of inductors
> and caps as well.
>
> Thanks,
> Kevin
Free SPICE programs are a topic close to my heart. Free counts as
low-cost, doesn't it?
If you are using Windows, a totally awesome SPICE package is LTSpice,
from Linear Tech. They give their version of SPICE away for free as a
loss-leader to sell their switching power supply chips. But don't
think that it's bad because it's free -- it is very stable, and has
lots of great analyses built into it. It has a built-in graphical
front-end, so all you have to do it draw your circuits, and then
simulate them. It's probably better than
anything you can buy for <10K. You can get it at:
http://www.linear.com/software/
(It's also called SwCADIII.)
If you are into Linux, the combination of gEDA and tclspice is a good
one for doing SPICE work. gEDA is a GPL'ed electronic design
environment. Info is here:
http://www.geda.seul.org/
Tclspice is a (more or less) working port of traditional SPICE3f5 to
the Linux platform. Its project page is here:
http://tclspice.sourceforge.net/
Finally, if you do want to try doing SPICE work on Linux, I have put
together a HOWTO doc which you can get here:
http://www.brorson.com/gEDA/SPICE/
Have fun!
Stuart
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