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From: perley@hobbes (Donald P Perley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Spice
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Date: 12 Mar 90 19:18:41 GMT
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In-reply-to: rang@ics.uci.edu (Roger Penaranda Jr. Ang)

In article <25F80873.10601@paris.ics.uci.edu>, rang@ics (Roger Penaranda Jr. Ang) writes:
>In article <3150@d75.UUCP> mikew@reed.UUCP () writes:
>>Boy do I feel stupid. What is spice?
>

>	From what I can guess, Spice is a language/file format for describing
>low level hardware designs, i.e. down to the logic gate or transistor level.

Spice is an analog circuit simulator.  There is a PD version floating around
for the amiga.  There are some enhanced commercial versions like HSPICE from
meta-software, but I don't know of any commercial ones on amiga.

A lot of cad packages can either read or write spice files, so it is sometimes
used as an interchange file format (what EDIF is supposed to be) between, say,
schematic capture and the DRACULA layout analysis program.

-don perley
perley@trub.crd.ge.com