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[Dan Weatherill <dan.weatherill@xxxxxxxxxx>]

gnucap would also be very nice, especially for mixed signal stuff.
That said my impression of it is that its development is not especially active 
at the moment.

Dan W


On Tuesday, 16 January 2018 09:22:49 GMT Babar Malik wrote:
> Thanks a lot. As far as my background knowledge is concerned, I am familiar
> with C++ but I didn't executed any project which includes a complete
> software development.
> 
> Babar
> 
> Best Regards,
> Muhammad Babar Malik
> Namal College Mianwali
> An Associate College of University of Bradford
> 
> On 16 January 2018 at 13:38, Christian Gagneraud <chgans@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > CC Qucs's maintainer, please feel free to extend.
> > 
> > On 16 January 2018 at 21:14, Babar Malik <babarnamal@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > I am much more interested to integrate Kicad and Qucs,  and the first
> > 
> > step
> > 
> > > towards this would be to study the source code of Kicad from scratch.
> > > Can
> > > you please help me regarding to this ? Please guide me from where I
> > 
> > should
> > 
> > > take first step?
> > > your help will be highly appreciated.
> > 
> > Hi Babar, (Please keep mailing list(s) posted)
> > 
> > Integrating KiCAD and Qucs can be done at several levels.
> > Both projects are written in C++, but one uses WxWidgets, while the
> > other is using Qt (3, 4, but not 5).
> > So maybe a possible approach would be to try to integrate qucsator
> > (the core simulation engine) with KiCAD's GUI.
> > That is: do not try to merge/join them at C++ level, but at process level.
> > Please also note that Qucs has some friendly forks that attempts to
> > consolidate alternative simulation engines (ngspice, xyce, gnucap,
> > spice opus, ...)
> > 
> > See eg.: https://qucs-help.readthedocs.io/en/spice4qucs/BasSim.html
> > 
> > I have no authority in any of the aforementioned projects, but may I
> > suggest to contact the developer mailing of each project.
> > Have a look at each project git repo, and don't hesitate to ask
> > question on respective mailing lists.
> > 
> > Some starting points:
> > https://github.com/Qucs
> > https://ra3xdh.github.io/
> > https://github.com/KiCad
> > https://savannah.gnu.org/git/?group=gnucap
> > https://github.com/Qucs/gnucsator
> > 
> > As I said, if you want to integrate qucs and KiCAD, you might want to
> > focus on using qucsator/gnucsator as simulation backend(s) in KiCAD
> > 
> > Don't feel overwhelmed, dive in and ask! ;)
> > 
> > What's your background? What are your skills and experience? It might
> > be useful to present yourself so that community members can understand
> > where you're coming from and how to help you to achieve your goals.
> > 
> > Chris

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