spice how to question

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marksheinbaum

Joined Mar 21, 2012
1
I'm a newbie to spice. I've been doing the experiments and reading the first chapter on DC. I've installed about 3 versions of spice on Windows 7 and linux. I've followed the instructions in the chapter on "Computer simulation of electric circuits" but I don't get the same results. After running the program in different ways, all I get is some line about the temperature. According to the doc, I should be getting some voltage and power output. I suspect I'm either doing something wrong, or need to do something else. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Input file:
cat test.cir
my first circuit
v1 1 0 dc 10
r1 1 0 5
.END

Running the program yields this:
ngspice test.cir
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Circuit: my first circuit

ngspice 1 -> run
Doing analysis at TEMP = 27.000000 and TNOM = 27.000000

ngspice 2 -> exit
 

noosphere

Joined Sep 28, 2008
2
I ran in to a similar problem when using Spice version 3.5.5 on Linux. The main problem appears to stem from the book (Lessons in Electric Circuits) using Spice version 2G6, which appears to have slightly different input deck specification requirements than version 3.5.5.

Here is what the input deck for the first circuit should look like to work on Spice 3.5.5:

Rich (BB code):
my first circuit
v 1 0 dc 10
r 1 0 5
.op
.print op
.end
 
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