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- Short: Analog Circuit Simulator for 030/881
- Uploader: henric@engineering.ucsb.edu
- Author: henric@engineering.ucsb.edu
- Type: misc/sci
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- Spice3f4 Amiga Release 1.0
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- What is this?
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- This is a full port of Spice3f4 (plus the 3f4 patches). All device models
- and analyses in the 3f4 distribution have been included. The full
- simulator has been built, but the stand- alone "nutmeg" has not
- (nutmeg is spice without any simulation capabilities). "proc2mod" and
- "multidec" have been included and seem to generate reasonable
- output.
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- Requirements
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- -- An Amiga with 030/881 or better.
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- -- AmigaOS 2 or better.
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- -- A few megs of ram. (I don't know really. The executable is about a
- megabyte.)
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- Installation
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- Just decompress it. It's ready to run. No silly assigns or anything!
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- Documentation
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- Online help is available with the "help" command. The full docs in
- PostScript format are available by anonymous ftp from
- 'ic.eecs.berkeley.edu'. This site also contains more example circuits.
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- Caveats
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- A few weeks ago, my lovely a4000/040 turned into a somewhat slower
- a4000/ec030 (the CPU card died). As a result, I have not personally
- been able to test it with "Enforcer". I have had someone with an MMU
- run through the examples directory with out problems, but this is not a
- particularly rigorous test.
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- The code was compiled for 030/881. If you don't have both of these
- (or better), then this is not for you. I don't have enough disk space for
- more than one variant at a time; I might be persuaded to compile a
- non- optimized version for less well endowed Amigas (with
- optimization, a full build takes about 4.5 hours).
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- As if all that wasn't enough, I don't seem to know anybody with
- anything less than 3.0 anymore, so although I was careful to not do
- anything 3.x specific, it is possible something slipped by. There is only
- one little file with Amiga specific stuff, so there isn't all that much room
- for me to screw that up. Come to think of it, if somebody _really_
- needs a 1.3 compatible version, then it shouldn't be too difficult.
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- Notes
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- Viewing "plot" output requires screen flipping. I know this is annoying
- (especially when "quit"ting the program). The program clones the
- workbench screen, so some plots may be difficult to see. On a more
- positive note, the plots first tries to use "xen.font" then it falls back to
- your default screen font.
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- Spice expects some files to be in "progdir:/lib" so if you move files
- around, keep this in mind. Some AmigaDOS magic makes "progdir:"
- point to there directory where the program is located. (If spice doesn't
- find these files then it will complain, but all should work anyway--except
- for the online help).
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- Suggestions and Bugs to...
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- Henric Jungheim <henric@engineering.ucsb.edu>
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