[sdiy] Qspice, anyone tried it?

[Phil Macphail]

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> On 28. Dec 2024, at 21:26, Ben Bradley via Synth-diy <synth-diy at synth-diy.org> wrote:
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> In the 1990s I used Pspice (a commercial package based on spice, too
> expensive for hobby work but the price was in line with engineering
> software at the time) at work, it seemed good to me, and had a good
> schematic entry interface (which helped ruin me for learning LTspice).
> The product was eventually canceled (and/or the company folded), but I
> recall since then some version being free to download and run.
Spice is alive and well, owned by Cadence these days. They bundle it with OrCAD (and presumably Allegro). Still not hobby pricing though!
For home use KiCAD/ngspice is probably a good choice, Qspice is a marketing tool really (but a very useful one) that doesn’t take a design into a PCB without redrawing. 

Phil