Re: [ng-spice-devel] RE: PSPICE format


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From Paolo Nenzi <pnenzi@ieee.ing.uniroma1.it>
Date Thu, 7 Dec 2000 11:30:07 +0100 (CET)
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On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Gillespie, Alan wrote:

> 
> > I think I will 
> > reverto the output
> > to the standard spice3 raw format in rewok14 and make the 
> > probe compatible
> > format as an option (a file to substitute). 
> 
> I think Paolo reckoned that some of the changes in outitf.c were
> worth keeping, and since the only quick way to do it was to
> incorporate all my changes, that's what happened. (Correct me if
> I'm wrong Paolo).

No, you are right.

> There are more practical, and less "legal" reasons to remove my
> outitf.c changes, though. First of all, since ng-spice doesn't run
> on the PC (I mean win32), I don't know how much use the PSPICE format
> would be to ng-spice. Next, the other main fix that I can think of
> in outitf.c is the one which removes all the device internal nodes,
> and optionally replaces them with terminal currents. They way I did
> this is a horrible hack, (as I said, it was early days), and I think
> it could be re-done in a much better manner. 

Yeah, let me finish the work on soi devices first.


> explaining what I think we could do to create a new ng-spice format
> which beats most of the others.

We can already discuss this issue, waht are your ideas ?


Paolo


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