Is someone here using B2 SPICE?

[Chaos Master]

Hi people.

Just curious if someone here uses the B2 SPICE circuit simulator? Is it good?

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[Rich Webb]

On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 01:55:46 -0300, Chaos Master
<spammers.fuck@spam.com.INVALID> wrote:

Hi people.

Just curious if someone here uses the B2 SPICE circuit simulator? Is it good?

I've been using it for ages, since back when they distributed it on
floppy disks packaged in their namesake brown paper bags, so I guess
I've internalized any quirks it may have. Works fine, good value.
There's a new version due out Real Soon Now but new purchases of the
current version qualify for a free upgrade to the newer.

They have both a "lite" freeware version and a full-but-time-limited
version available for download, so give it a try.

Also a user forum at http://www.beigebag.com/msgboard.mv where you can
get a feel for problems that folks are having and how well their support
responds.

--
Rich Webb Norfolk, VA

 

[Chaos Master]

Rich Webb writes within:

Just curious if someone here uses the B2 SPICE circuit simulator? Is it good?

They have both a "lite" freeware version and a full-but-time-limited
version available for download, so give it a try.

I will try it, I was asking for comments since it's a 30MB download (2 hours
on dial-up).

[]s
--
Chaos MasterŽ, posting from Brazil.
"Two of the most famous products of Berkeley are LSD and Unix. I don't think
that this is a coincidence." -- Anonymous
"I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not" - Kurt Cobain
"F*** you, pal. " -- Amy Lee

"STATUS: ELF and ORC signals detected on Tolkien (sp?) Ring network!"

The Evanescen(t/ce) HP: http://marreka.no-ip.com

 

[Rich Webb]

On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 16:57:09 -0300, Chaos Master
<spammers.fuck@spam.com.INVALID> wrote:

Rich Webb writes within:

Just curious if someone here uses the B2 SPICE circuit simulator? Is it good?

They have both a "lite" freeware version and a full-but-time-limited
version available for download, so give it a try.

I will try it, I was asking for comments since it's a 30MB download (2 hours
on dial-up).

Arrghhh... Roger that.

AFAIK, pretty much all the modern Spice offerings use the same engine on
the back end so the analytical results should be similar.

Their parts database is pretty good (insofar as I've used it). Custom or
third-party components should be in Berkely Spice 3 format (not PSpice
or Spice 2).

I haven't used it with Eagle but reports seem to be that works well.

The current GUI is OK. It looks like (I haven't seen it live) that's
where a lot of the improvement is in the new version.

--
Rich Webb Norfolk, VA

 

[Paul Burridge]

On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 01:55:46 -0300, Chaos Master
<spammers.fuck@spam.com.INVALID> wrote:

Hi people.

Just curious if someone here uses the B2 SPICE circuit simulator? Is it good?

I started out simulating with B2 spicePro and didn't much like it.
Sometimes the prgram would just 'hang' for no particular reason. I
don't much care for the graphics, either.
LT Spice remains the only one I get on well with.
--

"What is now proved was once only imagin'd." - William Blake, 1793.

 

[Kevin Aylward]

Paul Burridge wrote:

On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 01:55:46 -0300, Chaos Master
spammers.fuck@spam.com.INVALID> wrote:

Hi people.

Just curious if someone here uses the B2 SPICE circuit simulator? Is
it good?


I started out simulating with B2 spicePro and didn't much like it.
Sometimes the prgram would just 'hang' for no particular reason. I
don't much care for the graphics, either.
LT Spice remains the only one I get on well with.

Indeed. We know.

Kevin Aylward
salesEXTRACT@anasoft.co.uk
http://www.anasoft.co.uk
SuperSpice, a very affordable Mixed-Mode
Windows Simulator with Schematic Capture,
Waveform Display, FFT's and Filter Design.

 

Hi Group,
(Two cents from an older retired engineer)
I'm an old text-based PSPICE user who started using the B2 SPICE
because of the self-documenting nature of the Windows product.
I've been reasonably happy with it; good value, but a real failing of it
is the manual. It comes with this 200 page manual with some crude
tutorials, but they just don't properly cover many of the capabilities
of the product. Example: I do a lot of filter work where the group delay
vs. frequency info is pretty important. I know the product can display
Group Delay of a simulated circuit but they never explain or show
via example how to do it. With PSPICE you just do a VG(node name)
in the Scope display. I used to make many device models in the text-
based PSPICE. but have not had any occation to do so with the
B2SPICE; so I don't know how difficult it may be.

--davez
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Hi people.

Just curious if someone here uses the B2 SPICE circuit simulator? Is it
good?

[]s
--
Chaos MasterŽ, posting from Brazil.
"Two of the most famous products of Berkeley are LSD and Unix. I don't
think
that this is a coincidence." -- Anonymous

"I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not" - Kurt
Cobain

"F*** you, pal. " -- Amy Lee

"STATUS: ELF and ORC signals detected on Tolkien (sp?) Ring network!"

The Evanescen(t/ce) HP: http://marreka.no-ip.com