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[Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nice work, awesome!

Adam Wolf

On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 2:37 PM, Tomasz Wlostowski <
tomasz.wlostowski@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> As some of you have noticed, we've been working on a "secret" feature
> during the hackathon at CERN. The feature we're talking about is an
> integrated circuit simulator. Currently it features:
> - Seamless integration into schematic editor,
> - AC/Transient/DC sweep simulations,
> - Voltage probing from the schematics,
> - Live tuning of component values.
>
> A video demonstrating the capabilities of the new simulator is available
> on Tom's YouTube channel [1].
>
> The code is currently available in the ngspice branch on Tom's GitHub
> [2] for review & testing. It's a big feature, so we didn't want to push
> it immediately to the product branch. We'll greatly appreciate your
> feedback!
>
> The simulator uses ngspice [3] as the Spice kernel. We'd like to thank
> ngspice developers for providing a DLL interface which made seamless
> integration of ngspice into Kicad possible.
>
> In order to get started:
> - install ngspice shared library (is not provided by many Linux distros,
> Arch Linux is a known exception, so you might have to compile it from
> the sources with --with-ngshared --enable-xspice options).  Windows
> DLLs, msys2 PKGBUILD & binary packages (to be included soon in
> the official msys2 repo, currently merged to
> https://github.com/Alexpux/MINGW-packages/) & Linux script to build the
> library are available at [4].
> - compile eeschema with -DKICAD_SPICE=ON option,
> - have a look at some examples in demos/simulation directory.
>
> Happy simulating,
> Tom
>
> [1] https://youtu.be/A2_-hdRcf4U
> [2] https://github.com/twlostow/kicad-dev/tree/ngspice
> [3] http://ngspice.sourceforge.net/
> [4] https://orson.net.pl/pub/libngspice
>
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