What is a SPICE " *.SPI" file?

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I have a customer that wants my PSPICE design files but they must be in
"*.spi" files only and only primitives from SPICE library
(resistors,inductors, diodes.....) can be used. I work in Micro-Cap 7 and
can export PSPICE files but what are they talking about? How do I meet this
requirement?

TIA
Harry
 
"Harry Dellamano" <harryd@tdsystems.org> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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I have a customer that wants my PSPICE design files but they must be in
"*.spi" files only and only primitives from SPICE library
(resistors,inductors, diodes.....) can be used. I work in Micro-Cap 7 and
can export PSPICE files but what are they talking about? How do I meet
this requirement?

TIA
Harry
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Hello Harry,

they just want the SPICE netlist with no MC7 specific control
statements. You should give it the extension ".spi" instead of
".cir" or whatever you get from MC7.

Some component vendors also name their model files containing the
".model .." and ".subckt ..." with the extension ".spi" .

... only primitives from SPICE library
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This means that they don't like any behavioral sources in your netlist
because the syntax can be very different among the different SPICE
programs. The SPICE elements E, F, G and H are also standard in
every SPICE program.
You can take a look to PSPCREF.PDF what syntax PSPICE accepts.

Best regards,
Helmut
 
On Mon, 01 Aug 2005 22:38:26 GMT, "Harry Dellamano"
<harryd@tdsystems.org> wrote:

I have a customer that wants my PSPICE design files but they must be in
"*.spi" files only and only primitives from SPICE library
(resistors,inductors, diodes.....) can be used. I work in Micro-Cap 7 and
can export PSPICE files but what are they talking about? How do I meet this
requirement?

TIA
Harry
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It's equivalent to .CIR or .NET.

..SPI is usually from Silvaco SmartSpice.

Curly bracket stuff will need to be changed, {...} -> '...' and there
are differences where subcircuit parameters are used.

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On Mon, 01 Aug 2005 22:38:26 GMT, "Harry Dellamano"
harryd@tdsystems.org> wrote:

I have a customer that wants my PSPICE design files but they must be in
"*.spi" files only and only primitives from SPICE library
(resistors,inductors, diodes.....) can be used. I work in Micro-Cap 7 and
can export PSPICE files but what are they talking about? How do I meet
this
requirement?

TIA
Harry


It's equivalent to .CIR or .NET.

.SPI is usually from Silvaco SmartSpice.

Curly bracket stuff will need to be changed, {...} -> '...' and there
are differences where subcircuit parameters are used.

...Jim Thompson
--
Thanks Helmut and Jim, that is exactly what I needed.
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I will have your favorite beverages ASAP!
Cheers,
Harry
 
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