-------- On 3 January 2007 14:46, Russell Jones wrote: --------

I just looked into this recently. I mention these programs as there are no license problems with them (apart from NGSPICE ), so they may well be in the archive.

SPICE is not GPL compatible (it was released under an "old style BSD-license"). There was an attempt to change this by the gEDA ( http://www.geda.seul.org/ ) developers who for their NGSPICE project contacted Berkeley to ask for the licence to be changed to a newer compatible version. This request seems to have been turned down. ( http://ngspice.sourceforge.net/faq.html point 1.5) The main GPL system available, which AIUI is at least partly SPICE compatible, though incomplete, is GNUCAP ( http://www.geda.seul.org/tools/gnucap/index.html ). I've used the gschem program, and found it pretty good for what I was trying to do, draw a simple circuit diagram. I've not really got into the circuit simulation stuff yet, so I can't comment on the quality or completeness.

Russell

Lívio Cipriano wrote:

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Hi all,

Does anyone knows a repository where I can find SPICE program (for simulating electronic circuits) for SuSE 10.1 ?

In fact I'm having some "compatibility" problems with SPICE. My source is the book "http://www.macs.ece.mcgill.ca/~roberts/ROBERTS/SPICE/Welcome1.html", and some circuits needed to be trimmed to work with gnucap and ngspice. Anyway, the SPICE programme used on this book is PSPICE, the student version. My work around is to strip the output and, sometimes, simulation commands, from the file, just letting the circuit description, and using gspiceui do add and display the results of the simulations. That way, I can use gnucap and ngspice. I would like to ear others experiences on the compatibility issue. -- Regards, Lívio Cipriano -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org