Re: [Xcircuit-dev] XSPICE output possible?

[Svenn A. B. <sv...@bj...>]

On Saturday 11 February 2006 20:09, Matthew Jackson wrote:
> This is precisely what brought me to this tool to begin with. I was
> absolutely shocked to discover that very high-dollar, high-profile EDA
> tools (e.g. Cadence, Synopsys, etc.) produced awful graphical output
> without some convoluted, ineffective process. Toss in the fact that you
> can directly insert LaTeX into the schematic and it's a no-brainer. I
> must admit that I didn't initially use XCircuit for schematic capture.
> It was the most viable alternative to Dia, Visio, and Kivio. That being
> said, once I discovered the capability to produce SPICE compatible
> output, I haven't looked back. Again, I offer GREAT THANKS to those that
> have put forth so much effort into this project.

I look back every day. The user interface and the file format sometimes make 
me cry. All respect to Tim's work, but using postscript as a storage language 
is just too awkward. Specially when that postscript cannot be included 
pain-free into latex.

I am a daily Cadence user and was looking for an easy way to generate 
testbenches and documentation for testbenches, but ended up having each page 
in a separate *.ps file in order to acceptbly get it into latex, and then the 
feature to look at the entire testbench with gv was gone.

I discovered qucs a while ago, and that one at least has a modern user 
interface.

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Svenn