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