[sdiy] Online Power sim tools versus spice ...or TI versus LINEAR

[Dan Snazelle]

You know for more than a year now I've been using TIs online power search tools and simulators


Ultimately this has still kept my from learning spice 

(As I mainly use Java based simulators when I need to try out an idea quickly )

But after having really great conversation with a linear representative last week, i'm think I might be better off  using linear's parts


The main stumbling block so far has just been the decidedly non OSX rich environment of the Linear (and probrably all ) spice software ...so keyboard command oriented 

Which is fine I guess but ultimately it's all about time 

So oh experts tell me 

Will I be better off with TI or linear for figuring out power stuff ??


It's obvious that for power you need better analysis tools 

So spice seems at least more open 


Thanks for the opinions 



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