Hey, folks
I'm trying to complete the worksheets shown in the e-book, but they seem to refer to an ancient and arcane version of SPICE that:
a) is no longer available anywhere and
b) seems a heck of a lot more helpful than the 3f5 that's current.
For instance, in the book all the instructor has to do is list a voltage source and a resistor and BAM, out pops a page or two with useful info like voltage at various nodes and most importantly, total power dissipation.
Now let's contrast that with what I get out of SPICE 3:
Now, after a day or so of banging my head against the usual impenetrable maze of spaghetti-documentation, I managed to cajole it into printing a DC sweep, but there's still no power dissipation and everything's in scientific notation, including the steps between 0 and 100v. Yeah, it's good practice for mental multiplication but GOD is it annoying to try and make anything useful out of a quick scan of a graph.
Does anybody know a way to make this software use fixed-point notation by default, or at least until it gets to very large or small numbers?
I'm trying to complete the worksheets shown in the e-book, but they seem to refer to an ancient and arcane version of SPICE that:
a) is no longer available anywhere and
b) seems a heck of a lot more helpful than the 3f5 that's current.
For instance, in the book all the instructor has to do is list a voltage source and a resistor and BAM, out pops a page or two with useful info like voltage at various nodes and most importantly, total power dissipation.
Now let's contrast that with what I get out of SPICE 3:
Rich (BB code):
MacSpice 1 -> source Macintosh\ HD:Users:ctishman:Documents:2011:Electrical\ Study:SPICE\ files:circuit3.cir
Circuit: first example circuit
MacSpice 2 ->
Does anybody know a way to make this software use fixed-point notation by default, or at least until it gets to very large or small numbers?