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- From: jm67@hydra.gatech.edu (MURRAY,JEFFREY P)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Subject: XSPICE Simulation Tool Discussion
- Message-ID: <JM67.93Jan28085743@hydra.gatech.edu>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 13:57:43 GMT
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- Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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- I have gotten a lot of email reqesting more information about
- XSPICE; particularly, most folks seem to want to get more info on
- the tools prior to reqesting a copy. This is a reasonable request,
- unfortunately, we do not currently have the resources to do much
- toward that end, at least not in real time. I may try to get more
- information in the form of a spec sheet or attempt to move portions
- of the User's Manual onto the xspice@gtri.gatech.edu host machine
- to allow for anonymous FTP of that information. In the mean time,
- I am trying to answer as many of the questions I receive as possible...
- please bear with me.
-
- For those of you who just can't wait (and I hope there are at least
- a few of you ;-), let me suggest that you get hold of your nearest
- technical library, and obtain a copy of the Proceedings of the 1992
- International Symposium on Circuits and Systems. One of the papers
- presented (authors are F.Cox, W.Kuhn, S.Tynor and myself) introduces
- XSPICE and details an example of syntax, lists the models included,
- and works through an example using XSPICE to simulate the analog and
- digital portions (all in one netlist) of a MIDI-controlled music
- synthesizer. The paper should provide enough information to cover the
- most basic questions that have come up, but I will continue to see
- about getting all or portions of the User's Guide up and running.
-
- Again, bear with me. XSPICE is not a commercial product, just as
- "plain vanilla" SPICE is not...we don't have the resources of a
- MicroSim (=PSPICE) to promote the tools or help new users, although we
- would certainly like to. The "cost" of XSPICE is really just for
- documentation, cutting tapes, etc. and doesn't provide any real margin
- for support...we want folks to use these tools because we know ourselves
- how powerful they are. We are convinced that XSPICE provides most of the
- capabilities of a PSPICE and in many ways goes beyond it; it's up to the
- user community to decide if we're right.
-
- Regards,
-
- Jeff Murray
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- MURRAY,JEFFREY P
- Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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