[SI-LIST] Re: PCB Simulations
- From: Brendan Simpson <simpson.brendan@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Cotton, Chris" <Chris.Cotton@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 10:38:16 -0400
Hello all,
To clarify, I am looking for a tool to extract a PCB layout and allow the user
to simulate the actual traces.
I'm not sure it exists in a low cost tool though. I may end up trying to make
the extraction tool myself to generate a spice netlist that I could simulate in
some other tool like LTSpice.
I appreciate the suggestions so far, thank you all.
Best,
Brendan
On May 13, 2013, at 4:30 110PM, Cotton, Chris wrote:
> I am not aware of a program to do what you are looking for. But since
> accuracy is not of utmost importance why not just consult a few of the
> popular SI Books that provide lots of rules of thumb. There are web
> sites too that contain spreadsheets for calculating all kind of things
> SI. For first order analysis (which it sounds like you are looking for)
> these would be pretty helpful.
>
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> Subject: [SI-LIST] PCB Simulations
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> Hello Experts,
>
> Does anybody know of a cheap (read: Free) PCB simulation software for
> doing somewhat basic SI evaluations? I had a thought that maybe I could
> make a program to import a netlist and gerber files to generate the
> models necessary for analysis, but if someone else has already done
> this, it would be better. It doesn't have to be super powerful or super
> accurate. I do a lot of board layout work, but I do not have a lot of
> experience modeling complete PCBs.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Brendan-----------------------------------------------------------------
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