[sdiy] Allen Strange book

[Thomas Strathmann]

On 14.09.10 02:18, lanterma at ece.gatech.edu wrote:
> On Sep 13, 2010, at 8:05 PM, David G. Dixon wrote:
>
>> One other piece of advice I'd offer to a noob (assuming, of course, that my
>> credibility is not now all shot to hell) is to get yourself a SPICE
>> simulator, even if you have to beg, borrow, or steal to get it, and
>> preferably one with a nice graphical interface that also serves as a decent
>> schematic drawing tool.  It's been absolutely essential for me, probably
>> because I don't have EN. :o)
>
> I kind of like the (free) LT Spice. It's one of the few things that will make be boot into Windows on my Mac. ;)

Yes, there seems to be no Spice simulator with graphical user interface 
for MacOS apart from the one of which I forgot the name and that is 
going nowhere. For that reason I use Qucs (which runs on all three major 
platforms) which is not Spice but can import Spice netlists and models 
if needed. Otherwise it's EWB in a VirtualBox instance running Windows 
XP. For analog circuits I actually like the interface of Qucs better. 
The modelling capabilities are quite nice and it even supports Verilog-A 
(although I haven't tried this for lack of interesting models in that 
language).

	Thomas