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Linux-Announce Digest #347
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Linux-Announce Digest #347, Volume #4 Wed, 12 Mar 2003 20:13:02 EST
Contents:
NetStats Baseball v0.9.1 (Marshall Lake)
MS Linux !!! ("xbps")
Linux E-mail filtering Daemon. (Jean-Marc Pigeon)
LTspice/SwitcherCAD III now runs on Linux under WINE ("Mike Engelhardt")
for comp.os.linux.announce ("Mike Engelhardt")
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Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 18:58:32 CST
From: Marshall Lake <mlake@mlake.net>
Subject: NetStats Baseball v0.9.1
Reply-To: mlake@mlake.net
NetStats Baseball (NSB) v0.9.1 released. NSB is a simulation of Major
League Baseball and is available at <http://sourceforge.net/projects/nsbb>.
--
Marshall Lake -- mlake@mlake.net -- http://mlake.net
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Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 18:58:40 CST
From: "xbps" <freewares@email.com>
Subject: MS Linux !!!
Have you seen this : www.mslinux.org ?
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From: Jean-Marc Pigeon <jmp@safe.ca>
Subject: Linux E-mail filtering Daemon.
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 18:59:13 CST
Bonjour a Tous,
Find a new release of "mentor-1.0-371", on
<A HREF="www.mentor.safe.ca">, this package
is designed to filtered out SPAM and
other unwelcome E-mail.
It work by learning who is E-mailing to who and
postponing suspicious E-mail originator, mentor
will automatically learn about originator a
recipient do not like, rejecting that E-mail
first hand next time.
Mentor is working as front-end to sendmail (or
postfix). Recipient can chose its group ownership,
each group with a sensitivity level. Level can be
set high enough to recipient only accept response
to previously send own E-mail.
Mentor do not look at the E-mail contents,
only sending context related to previously
received E-mail, over time mentor will
know about the recipient correspondent.
Mentor proved to be working very well on site
receiving as much as 500 E-mails per hours,
We have a site with +2000 E-mails per hour
up and running (on a Pentium-IV 2Gig, IDE disk),
but this seems the be its practical limit (at least
for that kind of system and we are working mentor to
still improve its performance).
You can find informations and download mentor at
<A HREF="www.mentor.safe.ca">
Mentor come in RPM format, end-user and admin
interface is done in PHP (WEB interface), SMTP daemon
is written in C and sources are included in
the RPM itself.
Mentor RPM work for Linux RedHat distribution from
7.0 up to 8.0.
Keep me posted...
A bientot
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Jean-Marc Pigeon Internet: Jean-Marc.Pigeon@safe.ca
SAFE Inc. Phone: (514) 493-4280 Fax: (514) 493-1946
REGULUS, a real time accounting/billing package for ISP
REGULUS' Home base <"http://www.regulus.safe.ca">
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From: "Mike Engelhardt" <pmte@concentric.net>
Subject: LTspice/SwitcherCAD III now runs on Linux under WINE
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 18:59:14 CST
Reply-To: "Mike Engelhardt" <pmte@concentric.net>
This is an unlimited free schematic capture/SPICE
simulation program availible from
www.linear.com/software. A more complete discription
is appended to the bottom of this post.
This is the relevant part of the FAQ from the
help system regarding Linux/WINE:
Q. Do you have a version of LTspice for Linux?
A. Not a separate edition, but it does run under
WINE. The program has been tested on Linux
RedHat 8.0 with WINE version 20030219.
Q. OK, I've never used WINE, how do I install that
on my Linux box?
A. 1. Check with www.winehq.com to find the current
version of WINE for your system. At the time
of this writing, for RedHat 8.0, this points
to http://mecano.gme.usherb.ca/~vberon/wine
2. Copy the appropriate .rpm file to your machine
and open it from nautilus.
3. Get the file swcadiii.exe from www.linear.com.
In an xterm, execute "wine swcadiii.exe" to
install LTspice.
4. There will now be a Linear Technology Logo on
your gnome desktop. Double click it to start
or type "wine scad3.exe" from an xterm to
start the program. That's it!
Q. The schematic fonts don't scale as smoothly under
WINE as Windows. Why is that?
A. WINE is doing the best best it can with the fonts
it finds. It will do better if you tell it how
to find the files arial.ttf and cour.ttf from
your Windows system.
Q. The PWL additional point editor doesn't look
right under WINE?
A. Try using the native Windows .dll from your
Windows system. The command line to then invoke
LTspice from WINE is:
wine -dll commctrl,comctl32=n scad3.exe.
Q. It seems LTspice is running slightly differently
under WINE/Linux than windows. Why is that?
A. LTspice detects whether or not it's running under
WINE. If so, it works around a few WINE issues.
You can force LTspice to think it's running under
WINE with the command line switch -wine. You can
force it to think it's not with the command line
switch -nowine in case you're interesting in
debugging WINE.
Q. Under Windows, LTspice extends the virtual
address space for waveform viewing to 64 bits.
Does that work under WINE?
A. Yes. It has been tested on waveform files over
5 Gigabytes in size.
Q. Under Linux, does it support unlimited component
count and depth of schematic hierarchy?
A. Yes. Opps, no. The maximum depth of hierarchy
is 64 levels but that limit is just there to
allow detection of infinite subcircuit recursion.
(Most "unlimited" SPICE's "limit" you to about 21
levels.) LTspice has no limit on node or
component count either per page or for the
entire circuit.
Q. Does cross-probing while simulation work with
those slick marching waveforms while running
under Linux?
A. Yes.
Q. So from what version on is LTspice supported
under WINE?
A. 2.01g.
--Mike
Below is an older annoucement from sci.electronics.cad
that gives some general program information:
--- snip ---
There's a new version of LTspice/SwitcherCAD III
available. This version introduces a graphical
symbol editor, unlimited hierarchical schematics,
updated help documentation and improved
performance.
This program will run those Pspice models in
public domain or available from vender sites, but
faster and more reliably than Pspice.
Version 2.00c is available for immediate download
from http://www.linear.com/software.
People with earlier versions installed can use the
"Tools=>Sync Release" menu option to incrementally
update to the current version. However, if your
version predates April 10, 2002, you will have to
run the update command twice to get to the current
version.
This is a free, high-performance, unlimited, fully
functional SPICE simulator with unlimited integrated
schematic capture and waveform viewer. It is not
shareware or a demo. It is a fully functional
freeware.
* P-SPICE compatible semiconductors models, e.g.:
- diode recombination current
- bipolar quasi saturation
- JFET impact ionization
* P-SPICE behavioral modeling, both legacy POLY()
statements and arbitrary expressions, Laplace,
and look-up tables.
* P-SPICE netlist compatibility for .param, .func,
ako models...
* Multiple entries in a single library(hspice syntax)
* MOSFET models my be binned by size.
* New devices such as an arbitrary capacitance. Write
an expression for the charge, it symbolically
differentiates the expression and integrates the
capacitances. (Useful for rapid prototyping new,
hypothetical, transistor behavior.
* Temperature, model parameter or global parameter sweeps
* An original mixed-mode simulator(not xspice based)
* A VDMOS transistor device that intrinsically handles
the power MOSFET's gate charge behavior
* BSIM 3.2.4, BSIM 4.2.1, BSIMPD2.2.3, and EKV 2.62
* Marching waveforms/cross probing of any device or
subcircuit port current
* Dynamic waveform data compression
* Device database(power MOS, diodes, bipolars, JFETS)
* 400+ models of switch mode controllers and regulators
* Integrated unlimited hierarchical schematic capture
with unlimited undo and redo
* Multiple plot panes with ganged attached cursors.
* Unlimited redo/redo of plot settings.
* Parametric plotting(often called X-Y plotting)
* Fourier analysis(both .four statements and FFT's of
simulated data.)
* Numerous educational example circuits included.
* Free lifetime updates
This is a very easy to use SPICE/Schematic capture system.
It includes clear, on-line help but you should just be able
to mouse it out without reading any documentation. You
draft your circuit and push the "Run" toolbar button.
There are numerous examples included in the
"examples\Educational" directory.
It is the World's fastest SPICE. It started out as a re-
write of Berkeley SPICE 3F4/5 to improve it's performance on
machines with faster processors than memory and to improve
the timestep control of Berkeley SPICE. Professional analog
IC design engineers use it for full-chip, transistor level
simulations. Typical speed-ups over P-SPICE 9.X are three
to six fold. It wins the industry standard transistor-level
SPICE bench mark, the MCNC Bench Mark Suite, in speed and
convergence. Of course, when using it's own mixed-mode
simulator in it's own native HDL, there's nothing like it at
all.
--Mike Engelhardt
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From: "Mike Engelhardt" <pmte@concentric.net>
Subject: for comp.os.linux.announce
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 18:59:20 CST
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I posted this directly to comp.os.linux.announce, so
hopefully it's already been e-mailed to you.
--Mike
Subject: LTspice/SwitcherCAD III now runs on Linux under WINE.
LTspice/SwitcherCAD III now runs on Linux under WINE.
This is an unlimited free schematic capture/SPICE
simulation program availible from
www.linear.com/software. A more complete discription
is appended to the bottom of this post.
This is the relevant part of the FAQ from the
help system regarding Linux/WINE:
Q. Do you have a version of LTspice for Linux?
A. Not a separate edition, but it does run under
WINE. The program has been tested on Linux
RedHat 8.0 with WINE version 20030219.
Q. OK, I've never used WINE, how do I install that
on my Linux box?
A. 1. Check with www.winehq.com to find the current
version of WINE for your system. At the time
of this writing, for RedHat 8.0, this points
to http://mecano.gme.usherb.ca/~vberon/wine
2. Copy the appropriate .rpm file to your machine
and open it from nautilus.
3. Get the file swcadiii.exe from www.linear.com.
In an xterm, execute "wine swcadiii.exe" to
install LTspice.
4. There will now be a Linear Technology Logo on
your gnome desktop. Double click it to start
or type "wine scad3.exe" from an xterm to
start the program. That's it!
Q. The schematic fonts don't scale as smoothly under
WINE as Windows. Why is that?
A. WINE is doing the best best it can with the fonts
it finds. It will do better if you tell it how
to find the files arial.ttf and cour.ttf from
your Windows system.
Q. The PWL additional point editor doesn't look
right under WINE?
A. Try using the native Windows .dll from your
Windows system. The command line to then invoke
LTspice from WINE is:
wine -dll commctrl,comctl32=3Dn scad3.exe.
Q. It seems LTspice is running slightly differently
under WINE/Linux than windows. Why is that?
A. LTspice detects whether or not it's running under
WINE. If so, it works around a few WINE issues.
You can force LTspice to think it's running under
WINE with the command line switch -wine. You can
force it to think it's not with the command line
switch -nowine in case you're interesting in
debugging WINE.
Q. Under Windows, LTspice extends the virtual
address space for waveform viewing to 64 bits.
Does that work under WINE?
A. Yes. It has been tested on waveform files over
5 Gigabytes in size.
Q. Under Linux, does it support unlimited component
count and depth of schematic hierarchy?
A. Yes. Opps, no. The maximum depth of hierarchy
is 64 levels but that limit is just there to
allow detection of infinite subcircuit recursion.
(Most "unlimited" SPICE's "limit" you to about 21
levels.) LTspice has no limit on node or
component count either per page or for the
entire circuit.
Q. Does cross-probing while simulation work with
those slick marching waveforms while running
under Linux?
A. Yes.
Q. So from what version on is LTspice supported
under WINE?
A. 2.01g.
--Mike
Below is an older annoucement from sci.electronics.cad
that gives some general program information:
--- snip ---
There's a new version of LTspice/SwitcherCAD III
available. This version introduces a graphical
symbol editor, unlimited hierarchical schematics,
updated help documentation and improved
performance.
This program will run those Pspice models in
public domain or available from vender sites, but
faster and more reliably than Pspice.
Version 2.00c is available for immediate download
from http://www.linear.com/software.
People with earlier versions installed can use the
"Tools=3D>Sync Release" menu option to incrementally
update to the current version. However, if your
version predates April 10, 2002, you will have to
run the update command twice to get to the current
version.
This is a free, high-performance, unlimited, fully
functional SPICE simulator with unlimited integrated
schematic capture and waveform viewer. It is not
shareware or a demo. It is a fully functional
freeware.
* P-SPICE compatible semiconductors models, e.g.:
- diode recombination current
- bipolar quasi saturation
- JFET impact ionization
* P-SPICE behavioral modeling, both legacy POLY()
statements and arbitrary expressions, Laplace,
and look-up tables.
* P-SPICE netlist compatibility for .param, .func,
ako models...
* Multiple entries in a single library(hspice syntax)
* MOSFET models my be binned by size.
* New devices such as an arbitrary capacitance. Write
an expression for the charge, it symbolically
differentiates the expression and integrates the
capacitances. (Useful for rapid prototyping new,
hypothetical, transistor behavior.
* Temperature, model parameter or global parameter sweeps
* An original mixed-mode simulator(not xspice based)
* A VDMOS transistor device that intrinsically handles
the power MOSFET's gate charge behavior
* BSIM 3.2.4, BSIM 4.2.1, BSIMPD2.2.3, and EKV 2.62
* Marching waveforms/cross probing of any device or
subcircuit port current
* Dynamic waveform data compression
* Device database(power MOS, diodes, bipolars, JFETS)
* 400+ models of switch mode controllers and regulators
* Integrated unlimited hierarchical schematic capture
with unlimited undo and redo
* Multiple plot panes with ganged attached cursors.
* Unlimited redo/redo of plot settings.
* Parametric plotting(often called X-Y plotting)
* Fourier analysis(both .four statements and FFT's of
simulated data.)
* Numerous educational example circuits included.
* Free lifetime updates
This is a very easy to use SPICE/Schematic capture system.
It includes clear, on-line help but you should just be able
to mouse it out without reading any documentation. You
draft your circuit and push the "Run" toolbar button.
There are numerous examples included in the
"examples\Educational" directory.
It is the World's fastest SPICE. It started out as a re-
write of Berkeley SPICE 3F4/5 to improve it's performance on
machines with faster processors than memory and to improve
the timestep control of Berkeley SPICE. Professional analog
IC design engineers use it for full-chip, transistor level
simulations. Typical speed-ups over P-SPICE 9.X are three
to six fold. It wins the industry standard transistor-level
SPICE bench mark, the MCNC Bench Mark Suite, in speed and
convergence. Of course, when using it's own mixed-mode
simulator in it's own native HDL, there's nothing like it at
all.
--Mike Engelhardt
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comp.os.linux.announce,=20
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<DIV><FONT face=3D"Courier New">hopefully </FONT><FONT face=3D"Courier =
New">it's=20
already been </FONT><FONT face=3D"Courier New">e-mailed to =
you.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3D"Courier New"></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3D"Courier New">--Mike</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3D"Courier New"></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3D"Courier New">Subject: LTspice/SwitcherCAD III now =
runs on Linux=20
under WINE.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3D"Courier New"></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3D"Courier New">LTspice/SwitcherCAD III now runs on =
Linux under=20
WINE.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3D"Courier New"></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3D"Courier New">This is an unlimited free schematic=20
capture/SPICE<BR>simulation program availible from<BR><A=20
href=3D"http://www.linear.com/software">www.linear.com/software</A>. =
; A more=20
complete discription<BR>is appended to the bottom of this =
post.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3D"Courier New">This is the relevant part of the FAQ =
from=20
the<BR>help system regarding Linux/WINE:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3D"Courier New">Q. Do you have a version of =
LTspice for=20
Linux?<BR>A. Not a separate edition, but it does run=20
under<BR> WINE. The program has been tested on=20
Linux<BR> RedHat 8.0 with WINE version =
20030219.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3D"Courier New">Q. OK, I've never used WINE, how =
do I=20
install that<BR> on my Linux box?<BR>A. 1. Check =
with <A=20
href=3D"http://www.winehq.com">www.winehq.com</A> to find the=20
current<BR> version of WINE for your =
system. At the time<BR> of =
this=20
writing, for RedHat 8.0, this =
points<BR> to=20
<A=20
href=3D"http://mecano.gme.usherb.ca/~vberon/wine">http://mecano.gme.usher=
b.ca/~vberon/wine</A><BR> =20
2. Copy the appropriate .rpm file to your=20
machine<BR> and open it from=20
nautilus.<BR> 3. Get the file swcadiii.exe from <A=20
href=3D"http://www.linear.com">www.linear.com</A>.<BR> &=
nbsp; =20
In an xterm, execute "wine swcadiii.exe"=20
to<BR> install=20
LTspice.<BR> 4. There will now be a Linear Technology =
Logo=20
on<BR> your gnome desktop. =
Double=20
click it to start<BR> or type "wine=20
scad3.exe" from an xterm to<BR> =
start the=20
program. That's it!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3D"Courier New">Q. The schematic fonts don't scale =
as=20
smoothly under<BR> WINE as Windows. Why is=20
that?<BR>A. WINE is doing the best best it can with the=20
fonts<BR> it finds. It will do better if you =
tell it=20
how<BR> to find the files arial.ttf and cour.ttf=20
from<BR> your Windows system.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3D"Courier New">Q. The PWL additional point editor =
doesn't=20
look<BR> right under WINE?<BR>A. Try using the =
native=20
Windows .dll from your<BR> Windows system. The =
command=20
line to then invoke<BR> LTspice from WINE=20
is:<BR> wine -dll =
commctrl,comctl32=3Dn=20
scad3.exe.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3D"Courier New">Q. It seems LTspice is running =
slightly=20
differently<BR> under WINE/Linux than windows. =
Why is=20
that?<BR>A. LTspice detects whether or not it's running=20
under<BR> WINE. If so, it works around a few =
WINE=20
issues.<BR> You can force LTspice to think it's =
running=20
under<BR> WINE with the command line switch =
-wine. You=20
can<BR> force it to think it's not with the command=20
line<BR> switch -nowine in case you're interesting=20
in<BR> debugging WINE.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3D"Courier New">Q. Under Windows, LTspice extends =
the=20
virtual<BR> address space for waveform viewing to 64=20
bits.<BR> Does that work under WINE?<BR>A. =
Yes. It=20
has been tested on waveform files over<BR> 5 Gigabytes =
in=20
size.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3D"Courier New">Q. Under Linux, does it support =
unlimited=20
component<BR> count and depth of schematic=20
hierarchy?<BR>A. Yes. Opps, no. The maximum depth of=20
hierarchy<BR> is 64 levels but that limit is just =
there=20
to<BR> allow detection of infinite subcircuit=20
recursion.<BR> (Most "unlimited" SPICE's "limit" you =
to about=20
21<BR> levels.) LTspice has no limit on node=20
or<BR> component count either per page or for=20
the<BR> entire circuit.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3D"Courier New">Q. Does cross-probing while =
simulation work=20
with<BR> those slick marching waveforms while=20
running<BR> under Linux?<BR>A. Yes.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3D"Courier New">Q. So from what version on is =
LTspice=20
supported<BR> under WINE?<BR>A. =
2.01g.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3D"Courier New">--Mike</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3D"Courier New">Below is an older annoucement from=20
sci.electronics.cad<BR>that gives some general program =
information:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3D"Courier New">--- snip ---</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3D"Courier New">There's a new version of =
LTspice/SwitcherCAD=20
III<BR>available. This version introduces a graphical<BR>symbol =
editor,=20
unlimited hierarchical schematics,<BR>updated help documentation and=20
improved<BR>performance.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3D"Courier New">This program will run those Pspice =
models=20
in<BR>public domain or available from vender sites, but<BR>faster and =
more=20
reliably than Pspice.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3D"Courier New">Version 2.00c is available for immediate =
download<BR>from <A=20
href=3D"http://www.linear.com/software">http://www.linear.com/software</A=
>.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3D"Courier New">People with earlier versions installed =
can use=20
the<BR>"Tools=3D>Sync Release" menu option to incrementally<BR>update =
to the=20
current version. However, if your<BR>version predates April 10, =
2002, you=20
will have to<BR>run the update command twice to get to the=20
current<BR>version.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3D"Courier New">This is a free, high-performance, =
unlimited,=20
fully<BR>functional SPICE simulator with unlimited =
integrated<BR>schematic=20
capture and waveform viewer. It is not<BR>shareware or a demo. It =
is a=20
fully functional<BR>freeware.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3D"Courier New"> * P-SPICE compatible =
semiconductors models,=20
e.g.:<BR> - diode recombination=20
current<BR> - bipolar quasi=20
saturation<BR> - JFET impact =
ionization<BR> =20
* P-SPICE behavioral modeling, both legacy POLY()<BR> =20
statements and arbitrary expressions, Laplace,<BR> and =
look-up=20
tables.<BR> * P-SPICE netlist compatibility for .param,=20
.func,<BR> ako models...<BR> * Multiple entries =
in a=20
single library(hspice syntax)<BR> * MOSFET models my be binned by=20
size.<BR> * New devices such as an arbitrary capacitance. =20
Write<BR> an expression for the charge, it=20
symbolically<BR> differentiates the expression and =
integrates=20
the<BR> capacitances. (Useful for rapid prototyping=20
new,<BR> hypothetical, transistor behavior.<BR> =
*=20
Temperature, model parameter or global parameter sweeps<BR> * An =
original=20
mixed-mode simulator(not xspice based)<BR> * A VDMOS transistor =
device=20
that intrinsically handles<BR> the power MOSFET's gate =
charge=20
behavior<BR> * BSIM 3.2.4, BSIM 4.2.1, BSIMPD2.2.3, and EKV =
2.62<BR> =20
* Marching waveforms/cross probing of any device =
or<BR> =20
subcircuit port current<BR> * Dynamic waveform data =
compression<BR> =20
* Device database(power MOS, diodes, bipolars, JFETS)<BR> * 400+ =
models of=20
switch mode controllers and regulators<BR> * Integrated unlimited=20
hierarchical schematic capture<BR> with unlimited undo =
and=20
redo<BR> * Multiple plot panes with ganged attached =
cursors.<BR> *=20
Unlimited redo/redo of plot settings.<BR> * Parametric =
plotting(often=20
called X-Y plotting)<BR> * Fourier analysis(both .four statements =
and=20
FFT's of<BR> simulated data.)<BR> * Numerous =
educational=20
example circuits included.<BR> * Free lifetime =
updates</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3D"Courier New">This is a very easy to use =
SPICE/Schematic capture=20
system.<BR>It includes clear, on-line help but you should just be =
able<BR>to=20
mouse it out without reading any documentation. You<BR>draft your =
circuit=20
and push the "Run" toolbar button.<BR>There are numerous examples =
included in=20
the<BR>"examples\Educational" directory.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3D"Courier New">It is the World's fastest SPICE. =
It started=20
out as a re-<BR>write of Berkeley SPICE 3F4/5 to improve it's =
performance=20
on<BR>machines with faster processors than memory and to improve<BR>the =
timestep=20
control of Berkeley SPICE. Professional analog<BR>IC design =
engineers use=20
it for full-chip, transistor level<BR>simulations. Typical =
speed-ups over=20
P-SPICE 9.X are three<BR>to six fold. It wins the industry =
standard=20
transistor-level<BR>SPICE bench mark, the MCNC Bench Mark Suite, in =
speed=20
and<BR>convergence. Of course, when using it's own =
mixed-mode<BR>simulator=20
in it's own native HDL, there's nothing like it at<BR>all.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3D"Courier New">--Mike Engelhardt</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3D"Courier New"></FONT> </DIV></BODY></HTML>
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