Hi everyone,
This is my first post to this group, so hope it is in the right place...
I am the only engineer at my work, and as a recent graduate (~1 year out
of uni), am relying on SPICE modeling quite bit to verify my designs. I
am wondering what solution most EAGLE users adopt? What integrates well
with the schematic editor?
I have been looking at OPUS SPICE:
http://www.fe.uni-lj.si/spice/welcome.html
which mentions using EAGLE as its capture front end:
http://www.fe.uni-lj.si/spice/schematic.html
I have also seen the eaglesp3-0.99e ULP for working with EAGLE and
SPICE, found here:
As far as I can see so far, eaglesp3-0.99e will produce a generic,
standards compliant SPICE file for use with whichever SPICE backend is
available.
At the moment I am using demos of some commercial SPICE packages, and
LTSPICE/SwitcherCAD, though am running into issues with program limitations.
I am looking to use cross platform Linux/Windows tools for this, as I
mostly use Linux for my work at home. I was hoping LTSPICE would provide
this (it runs under WINE), though it has produced some glaring
simulation errors for me.
I am also generally pretty new to EAGLE, having used Protel/Altium in my
last job. As far as I can tell, the appropriate way to use EAGLE for
SPICE would be to draw the schematic using a particular EAGLE library,
which corresponds to a SPICE model library. Then use a ULP to generate a
SPICE netlist with simulation directives. Then simulate. Then iterate.
Is that how people are approaching this?
Cheers everyone,
Oliver
