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[Oscad Team <oscad.team@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Kicad developers,

Greetings from Oscad Team, IIT Bombay, India! As you are already aware, we
have developed Oscad <http://oscad.in> a free and open source EDA Tool for
circuit design, simulation, analysis and PCB design. Oscad uses KiCad for
schematic creation and PCB design. It uses Ngspice for simulation. We have
made an integrated environment where these tools can be independently
called and executed. We have written parsers to interface the different
tools.

We are now planning to come up with a new version of Oscad, where in we
would like to embed all our tools with-in KiCad itself. We would like to
modify the source code of KiCad such that it generates a netlist that can
be directly used with Ngspice. (Right now, we parse the KiCad netlist and
make it an Ngspice compatible one). For this we plan to do the following:

   1. We shall add tools in eeschema to help user add simulation parameters
   for ac/dc/transient simulations
   2. We will add more "fields" to a component in eeschema. For eg., a
   Flipflop will have fields like setup time, hold time. A sinusoidal source
   will have fields like amplitude, frequency etc.
   3. We will modify the way a "Spice" netlist is generated from eeschema.
   The netlist generated will now be in Ngspice format
   4. We shall add tools to create "Spice models" for diodes, MOSFETs, BJTs
   etc from with-in eeschema.
   5. We shall add a tool that "calls" Ngspice from eeschema and simulates
   the Ngspice netlist.

We would like to know your comments and feedback. We would also request
your co-operation for the new version of Oscad, that we plan to build.

Thanks
Oscad Team