MacSpice 3f5 2.9p33 review

As its name suggests, MacSpice is an implementation for the Mac of the Berkeley Spice 3f5 electronic circuit simulator.

License: Freeware OS: Mac OS X File size: 3038K Developer: Charles D.H. Williams Price: $0.00 Updated: 08 Jan 2007

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As its name suggests, MacSpice is an implementation for the Mac of the Berkeley Spice 3f5 electronic circuit simulator. However, MacSpice is not merely a 'port' of the Berkeley code, it incorporates many improvements ranging from bug-fixes to entirely new graphics, algorithms and solution strategies.

Spice is not easy to use, but it is a powerful tool once the initial hurdles have been overcome and the MacSpice website provides support and tutorials.

Requirements:
TextWrangler.

What's New:
Cure intermittent display of stale error/information messages.
Remove 'continuation lines' size limit, and replace O(N2) algorithms for assmbling continuation lines with O(N) versions.
Enforce validity of time parameters for PWL sources at start of analysis. Improve performance of complicated PWL sources during tran analysis.