Any Interest in SPICE forum?

[Pjotr]

Hi,

I’m in for a Spice forum.

To make life easier the last version of MicroCap (MicroCap7) produces circuit files that include al the models and graphics used in the schematic/simulation. That makes exchanging circuit files through the forum a lot easier. Unfortunately only on Windows based machines. But it is better to discuss this in such a forum.

Maybe a Spice forum by itself is not that applicable. Better is a forum “Computer Simulation” or “CAD Tools” with some subdivisions like Spice, LS simulation, PCB Design etc.

For my job I can’t live without Spice anymore. It speeds up analog design a lot and saves me a lot of smoked parts at the debug stage.

[pinkmouse]

Why don't you guys just start off a Spice thread, and if it takes off we could look at making it into a forum

We don't really want to have loads of empty forums, so unless we see that a major interest is around for a topic, leading to lots of posts, we tend to prefer the cross pollenisation that goes on in the current forums.

[Pedja]

Originally posted by pinkmouse
Why don't you guys just start off a Spice thread...

In what forum should we start such thread?

Pedja

[Pedja]

I mean it will be desperately lost in Everything Else.

Pedja

[Pjotr]

Originally posted by Pedja
I mean it will be desperately lost in Everything Else.

Pedja

Good point Pedja. In the past we saw questions concerning Spice, LS simulation, Software for soundcard based measurements and electronic CAD scattered over many forums and some got quickly lost. Many of these questions were more or less the same questions.

What about a new forum under “Other Stuff” named “CAD” with a sub title “Anything about Computer Assisted Design”?

[vic2]

I found that someone else already thought about starting a thread for spice modelling. I would be in favor of it.
Here are a couple of links I found elsewhere in the forum for free software: (sorry I forgot who posted them)

http://www.newburytech.co.uk/


http://www.microcode.com./downloads/student.htm



vic