Proposal for ngspice development in winter - UPDATE
Hi all,
This update follows the Al's letter regarding the GNUPac project. Since he
has set up an autonomous development site for the simulator, anyone
interested should subscribe to the GNUpac lists to participate to its
development (Al, I will subscribe).
Ngspice will continue its life and I hope that the sharing of
knowledge between ngspice and GNUPac (mainly Al advices) will continue in
the future.
That's for the ACS part, now let's come to spice:
Plan for the future:
1) Complete the sourceforge import (CVS, mlists, web, ftp)
I am doing the necessary steps to import file and rebuild the ieee
site structure. Hope that someone will help me with the new site.
2) Establish a sourceforge backup (at home, office, ISP)
This is not really a goal, anyone with some space on an HD can do this.
3) ngspice development:
Priority Zero: Release rework-14. I think that rework-14 is far from
complete but rework-13 was too buggy to be considered
the lastest stable so:
Consider rework-14 in freeze, we should concentrate on
closing discovered bugs and make a release ASAP.
Priority One: Working on release rework-15.
Goals:
a) Achieving better separation between the simulator
modules. This is an ambitious goal, I do not know if
we will reach it with rework-15.
b) Dynamic loading of non basic models.
c) Adding new patches (like the frontend ones)
d) Model testing and bug correction
Priority two: Include the xspice code into ngspice
Add a database for models:
.include DB:<db.host>.modelname (or similar)
Add database capability to analysis output
(using postgresql)
Ok, flame me :)
Ciao,
Paolo
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