gEDA-dev: Draft: Creating and maintaining a spice model library

[al davis]

On Sunday 04 November 2007, Werner Hoch wrote:
> I've play with the component-library-command backend of
> libgeda. I'm posting the code later. It's currently a little
> bit messy ;-)
>
> I will use it for a spice library. The testing results for
> some parts of the nxp bipolar library (npn and pnp) can be
> viewed here:
>
>   http://www.h-renrew.de/h/misc/nxp/bipolar/index.html
>
> Please let me know what you think about the following draft.
> Suggestions are very welcome.

Looks good so far...

I suggest not limiting it to "spice" models.  Rather, just 
say "models" and open it up to include other formats like 
Verilog-A, Spectre, Mast, IBIS, VHDL-AMS, ......  In the 
future, gnucap will be able to use at least some other formats.

The current status is that the development snapshot can do some 
Verilog-A and Spectre.  I have code for IBIS that needs some 
rework to release.  It's about 90% complete. 

When you expand it to other formats, it makes sense to add 
another column to the table, for the language the model is 
written in.