SuperSchematics

[USER USER]

I am evaluating SuperSpice simulator. Looks good; although I am more
interested in it's schematic capture.

I currently use industrial strenght spice simulators (along with Cadence
ADE/artist), therefore I have no need for it's spice engine.

I think the schematic capture part/component symbol generator has potential
and I believe you can spin it off as a configurable schematic capture only
product. The market is for existing (*)spice users who want to migrate to a
low-cost, easy to use schematic capture.

Here are some features that I see for this product:

1. scripting -- for formating spice/mixed-mode specific netlists, etc., and
for calling other simulators to run the generated netlist. Maybe allow
plug-in modules, which are specific to simulator target. This is openly
documented so others can write targets for hspice, pspice, smash, scad3,
etc.
2. Allow a mechanism for back annotation. Again, this can also be in form of
modules.
3. General components: allow veriloga, verilogd, vhdl, etc., to be treated
components which can be placed on the schematic.

Your competition in this arena is gEDA at the low-end and maybe silicon
canvas at the midrange.


Regards..

 

[Kevin Aylward]

USER USER wrote:

I am evaluating SuperSpice simulator. Looks good; although I am more
interested in it's schematic capture.

You can always email me directly.

I currently use industrial strenght spice simulators (along with
Cadence ADE/artist), therefore I have no need for it's spice engine.

Actually, for IC design work, SS is the cheapest i.e. ~Ł200 range
simulator. e.g. it supports binning, schematic L W and M for mosfets and
has decent WC analysis. Also arbitrary ReRuns for multiple parameter
sweeps.

I think the schematic capture part/component symbol generator has
potential and I believe you can spin it off as a configurable
schematic capture only product.

Well, its nice to know that people like the schematic capture of SS.

The market is for existing (*)spice
users who want to migrate to a low-cost, easy to use schematic
capture.

Here are some features that I see for this product:

1. scripting -- for formating spice/mixed-mode specific netlists,
etc., and for calling other simulators to run the generated netlist.

You can use *any* standard spice engine with SS as is, if it takes the
standard spice batch command. This is explained in the help. If you just
drag drop such an engine from its file location to the SS main window,
it will make that the spice engine instead of the default xspice.exe.

You will lose some functionality though. e.g. there is messaging between
the GUI and the engine that displays the current simulation point.

Maybe allow plug-in modules, which are specific to simulator target.
This is openly documented so others can write targets for hspice,
pspice, smash, scad3, etc.
2. Allow a mechanism for back annotation. Again, this can also be in
form of modules.

SS already automatically back anotates voltage, current and power onto
the schematic from any standard spice output file.

You can also manualy load in standard spice files to view them.

3. General components: allow veriloga, verilogd, vhdl, etc., to be
treated components which can be placed on the schematic.

Not quite sure what you mean here.

Kevin Aylward
informationEXTRACT@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.