Want Schematic Capture/Sim software compatable with PSPice a

[Thomas Garson]

Our current platform, Protel 98SE, can't digest the Spice models
fabricated with the extensions used by PSPice or ISSPice. Most if not
all, of the models of the new switcher contrroler chips come under
this heading. Altium, who now publishes Protel wants to upgrade us to
Altum XP2004 for another chunk of $$$, but they don't support the
afore mentioned model extensions, and don't seem to be in any hurry to
do so. While XP2004 has lots of redeeming features and is in many ways
quite superior to Protel 98Se, it has some big warts.

It will cost us something to the tune of $2500.00US to move to XP2004.
Can anyone suggest a similarly featured platform that might be willing
to give is a competetive upgrade and that includes the capability of
handling those "rogue" SPice models?

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Tom Garson
Aural Technology, Ashland, Or.
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[analog]

Thomas Garson wrote:

Our current platform, Protel 98SE, can't digest the Spice models
fabricated with the extensions used by PSPice or ISSPice. Most if not
all, of the models of the new switcher contrroler chips come under
this heading. Altium, who now publishes Protel wants to upgrade us to
Altum XP2004 for another chunk of $$$, but they don't support the
afore mentioned model extensions, and don't seem to be in any hurry to
do so. While XP2004 has lots of redeeming features and is in many ways
quite superior to Protel 98Se, it has some big warts.

It will cost us something to the tune of $2500.00US to move to XP2004.
Can anyone suggest a similarly featured platform that might be willing
to give is a competetive upgrade and that includes the capability of
handling those "rogue" SPice models?

Have you considered LTspice? It's 99+ percent Pspice compatible, is
faster than Pspice and has a better schematic capture front end. It
has great support from its author, Mike Engelhardt, and through its
Yahoo Group users group. Oh, and it is available for free without
registration from software page of the Linear Technology web site:
http://www.linear.com/software (and it's not hobbled like the student
version of Pspice).

Try it, you'll like it -- analog