[spice_announce] Spice OPUS 2.0 Released (fwd)
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Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 14:58:47 +0200
From: Arpad Buermen <arpadb@fides.fe.uni-lj.si>
To: SPICE OPUS Announcements <spice_announce@fides.fe.uni-lj.si>
Subject: [spice_announce] Spice OPUS 2.0 Released
CACD Group
Faculty of Electrical Engineering
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Dear Spice OPUS user,
We are pleased to inform you that Spice OPUS 2.0 was released on 6.April 2000.
The latest version has many improvements and new features:
- XSPICE extensions
- Mixed-mode simulation
- User defined nodes support (event-driven nodes described in C language)
- Code model support (user written models written in C language)
- Support for loadable modules of code models and user defined nodes (from
cm files)
- An extensive set of predefined analog, digital and hybrid code models
- Templates for building your own code models
- Improved convergence
- Advanced options for controlling convergence
- Spice 2g6 polynomial (POLY) source support
- Phase parameter for SIN, PULSE and SFFM transient sources
- DC sweep of any model/instance parameter, global circuit temperature and
global nominal temperature
- Improved let command now supports altering device/model parameters
- Device/model parameters can be used in expressions
- Less memory leaks
- Two new NUTMEG commands: cmload and siminfo
- Printing support for Spice terminal window and plot window
- Guide for exporting plots into EPS format that can be used for creating you
own .pdf documents
- Guide for exporting vectors from spice into other applications
- Improved documentation with application notes
You can download Spice OPUS 2.0 from:
http://fides.fe.uni-lj.si/spice/download/download1.html
More information about Spice OPUS can be found at:
http://fides.fe.uni-lj.si/spice/welcome.html
We hope you will enjoy using Spice OPUS as much as we enjoyed creating
it.
Best regards
The Spice OPUS development team.
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