It would be great if Cadsoft offered an integrated software simulator to go along with Eagle. I have the B2 Spice software, but it never really integrated well (or at all) with Eagle. That is the one thing that I really miss.
It would be great if Cadsoft offered an integrated software simulator to go along with Eagle. I have the B2 Spice software, but it never really integrated well (or at all) with Eagle. That is the one thing that I really miss.
Hi Andrew,
On 08/16/2012 12:59 AM, Andrew Sterian wrote:
On 8/15/12 6:33 PM, Jorge Garcia wrote:
>> On 8/15/2012 12:57 PM, Thomas Holley wrote:
>>> Is there any plan to upgrade Eagle with simulation?
>>>
>> Hi Thomas,
>>
>> There are plans to do this. Keep your eyes open you should see something
>> by the end of this year.
>>
>> hth,
>>
>> Jorge Garcia
>> Cadsoft Support
Ugh, sounds like you guys are "chasing rainbows". Real simulation takes thought and careful modelling, Eagle is not
meant for this. How is the user going to indicate that the 2-pin connector that represents a voltage input to the PCB
should be modelled by a voltage source with 2.3 ohm series resistance and 100us risetime?
There are about 1 bazillion REALLY GOOD ideas on this newsgroup for improving Eagle's SCHEMATIC AND LAYOUT abilities
that have been around forever (well...at least since v3 when I started) that just never get implemented. If Eagle chases
the low-cost "pretty face" CAD tools by implementing "simulation lite" it is entering a race to the bottom; instead of
being the best tool in its class it will be just another little fish in a big sea of mediocre tools intended for
hobbyists. It's already headed that way with the Newark integration {smiley eek jivemacro verylame}.
That's some misunderstanding. We are not developing simulation capabilities ourselves, we're working on import/export
between EAGLE and a simulation system based on SPICE. We would have that already if there weren't much differences
(partly incompatibilities) in the data models.
I agree, it would be a bad idea to leave our market area PCB design.
And yes, we have plenty of good suggestions from our customers that we partly pick up (depending on reasonability
and feasibility) to become better and better 
The Newark integration is not part of our software and not from us.
Hope this makes things clearer.
Regards,
Walter Spermann
It's sad. Just IMHO.
Andrew.
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