gEDA-user: Basic questions from a gEDA & Linux noob

[Dan McMahill]

al davis wrote:
> On Tuesday 14 August 2007, John Doty wrote:
>>> If you are adjusting transistor parameters, you can use
>>> gnucap. You can change them any time with a ".param"
>>> statement, and pass arguments to a .subckt.
>> Yeah, but the layout contractor wants Spice netlists as input
>> to   their software: it doesn't have this feature. Since I
>> prefer to simulate what I submit (to avoid possible errors in
>> translation), I'll stick with four terminal transistors.
> 
> Most commercial Spice simulators do have .param and subckt 
> parameters.

yes, but John is talking about layout tools which read a spice netlist 
for connectivity.  They may not like parameter passing.

-Dan