Spice for Beginner

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RobinGriffiths

Joined Aug 16, 2011
20
Hi,

Despite dabbling in electronics for years, this is the first time I've taken an interest in Spice for circuit simulation. I've had a play with some versions, e.g. Topspice, LTSpice, Spice2G.6 command line app.

What I want to do is learn how to define cicruits using spice commands and netlist (in the manner of the 2G.6 command line, but with a rather more sophisticated UI) rather than drawing a schematic circuit. In particular, I was looking at something I can use with the following website http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~jan/spice/spice.overview.html



Any recommendations on best package for this ?

Regards,

Robin
 

Hagen

Joined May 8, 2010
30
If you are looking for a text based Spice app, and have access to a Mac, MacSpice is the program I used for several years. The documentation is first rate, and the support was great. The best part is that it is a free download.
 

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RobinGriffiths

Joined Aug 16, 2011
20
Hi Hagen,

Don't have access to a Mac unfortunately. What I'm after is a windows based text editor, but with nice simulator graphics - those in the command line .exe were text based. Alternatively, I can try an work out how to specify spice text circuits in LTSpice, TopSpice etc.

A slightly different question. What Spice packages are preferred for hobby/education/semi professional usage ?



Cheers,

Robin
 

debjit625

Joined Apr 17, 2010
790
LTSpice and Multisim both use spice for analyzing circuits and I prefer both.
PSpice also use spice for analyzing circuits.
RobinGriffiths said:
What I want to do is learn how to define cicruits using spice commands and netlist (in the manner of the 2G.6 command line, but with a rather more sophisticated UI) rather than drawing a schematic circuit.
In LTSpice you can do that,open notepad write your netlist(define your circuit) now save the file with an extension of *.cir.Now open the file under LTSpice and simulate,LTSpice also provide text editor for writing netlist.

Good luck
 

steveb

Joined Jul 3, 2008
2,436
If you are looking for a text based Spice app, and have access to a Mac, MacSpice is the program I used for several years. The documentation is first rate, and the support was great. The best part is that it is a free download.
Thanks for the suggestion. I was looking for a Mac version of spice. I tried it out quickly and got it running in a few minutes. Works great.
 

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RobinGriffiths

Joined Aug 16, 2011
20
After some more research, Tina TI spice does what I was after - at least what I think I was after. There's a netlist editor that I can create/edit directly within the app and apply analysis directly to the .Cir file.

Cheers,

Robin
 
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