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

[Mattias Rickardsson]

LTspice on OS X is quirky, on Windows it's manageable.

Having undo on F9 is weird, but having no tool buttons on OS X is just
stupid. Why make the UI much worse than on Windows? Having to look for
everything via right-click on a system that doesn't really have
right-click... I don't get it. :-)

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

Thnx

Sent from my iPhone

On Nov 27, 2015, at 7:41 PM, Walker Shurlds <walkershurlds at gmail.com> wrote:

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



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.
>
> Justin
>
>
>
> 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
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
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