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From: mmm@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert Thorson)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: SPICE on personal computers
Message-ID: <19546@cup.portal.com>
Date: 16 Jun 89 22:07:03 GMT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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I just saw an ad from Intusoft for a $95 SPICE circuit modelling program for
IBM PC's and clones.  Does anybody out there have experience with this
program?  Can anyone recommend/disrecommend other SPICE programs for personal
computers (any kind of cheap personal computer, like IBM, Mac, or Amiga)?

The same ad also offers a SPICE for 386 machines which they claim is the
fastest PC SPICE.  Cost is $386.  (Hopefully they won't raise the price when
486 machines become available.)

They also offer a schematic editor for $295 which generates SPICE netlists.

These prices sound real attractive to me.  Are they too good to be true?
Please share your experiences with SPICE on personal computers.

BTW, my application is not IC design.  I am interested in playing around with
neural networks, and I think a SPICE environment would be much easier for
trying out different models than, say, a C programming environment.  Is this
a crazy idea, or what?  Are you aware of a neural modelling environment that
would allow a wide variety of analog models to be implemented more easily
than a SPICE environment?