SPICE on Linux Resources

7.25.2003 -- Cloned from previous document "Advanced SPICE netlisting. . . ."
9.1.2003 -- Added updates/enhancements for gnetlist and gnet-spice-sdb.scm.
9.9.2003 -- Added further updates/enhancements for gnetlist and gnet-spice-sdb.scm.
10.19.2003 -- Added multiple file opening for gschem. Bugfixes for gnet-spice-sdb & gnet-protelII.
12.25.2003 -- Bugfix of swizzled user subckt. Added ability to emit attributes for semiconductor devices.
3.24.2004 -- Bugfixes made to JFET stuff during Feb. Change released now.
12.21.2004 -- Updated HOWTO with DocBook version. Reorganized web page.
1.5.2004 -- New version of HOWTO.

Introduction and purpose

This web page contains information about performing circuit design and SPICE simulation using the gEDA environment on Linux. I am making this stuff available for the open-source community because I have worked on improving several gEDA tools, and through that experience have collected some wisdom -- as well as more material information -- which might be of use to newbies.

Nota bene: If you are looking for a version of SPICE which runs on Linux, I recommend grabbing ngspice, downloadable via the ngspice home page on sourceforge. It experienced a burst of development during 2004, and incorporates a number of new patches which have increased its stability and augmented its feature set, and is therefore the preferred open-source SPICE (for now).

Available materials

Information and documentation

Source code and other files for gEDA

I no longer maintain any gEDA source code here. Grab the latest gEDA stuff directly out of CVS using the instructions available from the gEDA home page.

SPICE models

Below are some SPICE models, mostly from the Linear Tech SwCADIII tool, and from the Analog Devices designer's reference CDROM. They are ready to use; just unzip and untar them, and install them in your ${prefix}/geda/share/models/ directory. They are not included in the gEDA distribution -- perhaps for IP reasons? Therefore, if you are interested in doing SPICE simulations with gEDA, you may want to download these.

Example projects

I am making these projects available to show how to use gEDA to create SPICE netlists for simulation. The circuits themselves may or may not be optimal designs, and may or may not work in practice. Don't complain to me if you build one of them and it melts down and sets your workbench on fire!
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