Rework 9


To ng-spice@ieee.ing.uniroma1.it, ng-spice-devel@ieee.ing.uniroma1.it
From Paolo Nenzi <pnenzi@ieee.ing.uniroma1.it>
Date Wed, 29 Mar 2000 08:45:46 +0200 (CEST)
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Hi all,

Rework 9 is out. It includes:

- Arno's patch that makes every device dynamically loadable. Another step
  int the "plug-in" direction.

- Dezai's patch for ptfuncs.c. I had not much time time to test the code,
  so it is maked by an #ifdef EXPERIMENTAL_CODE. You have to #define it to
  get Dezai's patch. I have asked Manu if he can add a new switch into the
  autoconf interface.

That's all!

Now some other news:

- Where do we want to go ?
  This is still an open question. There was a short thread last week about
  writing the API's for a simulation kernel to use as base for a new
  spice. Should we do this ? Can we do this ? I have spent some time 
  in the netlib repository searching for algorithms and packages for
  sparse matrix handling and came out with a huge state of confusion.
  I am definitively a numeric-ignorant. Before spending time in other
  parts of the code, I think we should address the matrix package 
  problem. Sparse seems still a good code (as written in numerical
  repositories), but it can improved for new deeply pipelined
  architecture.  



Web news: there will be a delay, I have an improrogable and time
saturating task for April 7th, the web will be published shortly 
after this date. This delay will be useful to get sggestions for 
the web site: new pages, links, etc.

Mailing List archive: almost completed, should become public with the site


Bye,
Paolo


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