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

[Dan Snazelle]

Ok good to know
LTspice was the first OS X spice I had tried and yes...it's weird to get used to 

Thnx 

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> On Nov 27, 2015, at 7:41 PM, Walker Shurlds <walkershurlds at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I'm actually about 50% LTspice via wine in Debian and 50% ngspice right now. Ngspice (which is terminal only, so I assume there's a way to get OSX to handle it) because I like to be able to invoke it when I'm ssh'd into my main box, and also in theory I can write bash scripts that invoke it (which of course had never happened). And also because LTSpice has some really bizarre quirks (undo is F9, seriously?) despite being really powerful.
> 
> Anyway, I think LTSpice might have a steeper learning curve than others because of quirks but now that I already have a billion models I downloaded that I know it's happy with I'm probably stuck with it.
> 
> Walker
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>> On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 6:26 PM, Justin Herrmann <ebn303afxcut at email.com> wrote:
>> I use LTSpice with OSX (w/ Wine) all the time. Linear has also come out with LTSpice specifically for OSX, but I haven't tried it yet. And LTSpice is good as a general purpose Spice simulator, not just for Linear's power ICs.
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>> Justin 
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>> Dan Snazelle <subjectivity at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 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
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>>> 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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