[SI-LIST] Re: Spice recommendation

Robert, 

I have been using Micro-Cap for several years and find it capable and 
especially, easy to use. For example, it took me a couple of days to 
get my first optimization going in Hspice and about 20 minutes in 
Micro-Cap. They have a decent library and such niceties as allowing 
subcircuits that are s2p files that you might get from a VNA 
measurement.

The price was $4k about 3 years ago, haven't checked lately. The 
company is Spectrum-soft.com.

Regards,
Ron Kinder

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>Looking for recommendations on a good overall Spice package for SMPS 
design
>and general mixed analog/digital simulations. By good I mean nice 
(and
>useful) feature set, flexible in what vendor models it can use, help 
with
>convergence problems, and easy to use.
>
>I'm primarily looking at PSpice from Cadence and ICAP/4 (Windows or
>Professional) from Intusoft. They're in the same general $3K-$5K 
price
>range, but I've had no luck finding any unbiased comparisons or 
evaluations
>of the two packages, or really of any Spice package. Only marketing 
fluff
>from the vendors themselves. Yes, I could and will eval the products, 
but
>would like to hear from others who have really run them through their 
paces.
>
>I'm pretty much a Spice newbie and can never get LTSpice to do what I 
want.
>I'm ready to invest time and money in a tool I can get some real work 
done
>with instead of having to outsource it.
>
>Thanks,
>Bob S.
>
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