gEDA-dev: Re: GEDA development ....

[Russell Shaw]

John Doty wrote:
> 
> On May 8, 2007, at 1:24 PM, al davis wrote:
> 
>> The problem with Spice is that it is not flexible enough.  It
>> might be flexible enough for you, but lots of people bump
>> against its problems on a regular basis.  That's why there are
>> others like Spectre, Touchstone, Hyperlynx, Nano-sim, Rice, and
>> many others.
> 
> Well, then quit throwing rocks at SPICE and do something better. SPICE 
> may be a klunker, but it's better than vapor. Yes, I know it has 
> problems, I've been working around them for years. But you can't beat 
> something with nothing. I google for Verilog-AMS and 99% of what comes 
> up is hype, not substance.
> 
>> "gnetlist" does one kind of translation.   ..  From gschem out.
>> I was addressing all the others.  The concept I proposed is to
>> translate in two steps.  In to a common interchange format,
>> then out.  That way we need only 2*n translators, instead of
>> n^2.  I want to make it easy to support many formats, without
>> adding the baggage of carrying them all.
> 
> Now you worry me again. Sounds like EDIF.
Does anyone have a diode and BJT model done in verilog-AMS?