[SI-LIST] Re: Spice recommendation
- From: "David Banas" <david.banas@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <rsefton@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "[SI-LIST]" <si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 07:08:57 -0700
I've been using PSpice since the OrCAD days and have always found it
easy to use. I use HSpice at work these days, for its advanced features
and performance, but still keep PSpice running at home, for when I'm
"fiddling".
I've used the Intusoft product also, but it's been over 10 years now;
I'm sure it's changed quite a bit. I recall that it was also easy to
use. Both products allow you to go straight from schematic entry to
waveform viewing without having to generate any of the textual Spice
deck by hand or launch the Spice simulation explicitly. You simply draw
the schematic as you would if you were doing a board (being careful to
take parts from libraries that the Spice simulator "understands", of
course), place some probes on the nets you're interested in, invoke a
simulation configuration dialog box, and click the "Go" button. In
PSpice you're then presented with one of two windows:
- a graphical waveform viewer if the simulation went ok, or
- a textual listing of the Spice run if there were errors you need to
fix.
And I seem to recall that the Intusoft product worked in much the same
way.
I hope that helps,
-db
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> Subject: [SI-LIST] Spice recommendation
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> Thanks,
> Bob S.
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