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diff --git a/Windows/spice/docs/NEWS b/Windows/spice/docs/NEWS deleted file mode 100644 index 4bdb0012..00000000 --- a/Windows/spice/docs/NEWS +++ /dev/null @@ -1,769 +0,0 @@ -Ngspice-31, Sep 22nd, 2019 -============ - -- New features: - + if a subcircuit is defined more than once, only read the first one and discard the others - + vbic model implementation including self-heating effect - + Enable the file input as additional search path for .include files also for non-Windows OSs - + add scope to decks and subcircuits (not yet fully implemented) - + enable 'res' as valid resistor model identifier - + Add variable 'nostepsizelimit' to relieve step size limit defined by TSTEP of the .tran command - + Windows GUI: make GUI more responsive - + if the comaptibility mode is PS, LTPS or LTPSA, '$' is treated as a valid character, not as - end-of-line comment delimiter - + allow very short version information with new options -v and -d to 'version' command - + the PSPICE area token for a device instance may be not only a number, but also a parametrized - token like {tok} - + Windows GUI: New history buffering - + Windows GUI: Added scrolling to input window - + update to hicum version 2.40 - + allow " around netnames for .plot and .print commands - + command 'setcs': like command 'set' but case sensitive - + linearized cutout of an original vector by defining the vectors lin-tstart, lin-tstop, - and lin-tstep before sending the 'linearize' command - + new examples: inverters and ring oscillator using SOI - + 'option norefvalue' to suppress printing the reference value - -- Bug fixes: - + many bugs fixed and code improvements (patches 33 - 64, bug tracker nos. 390, - 394, 395, 403, 404, 408) - + memory leaks removed - -Ngspice-30, Jan 1st, 2019 -============ - -- New features: - + VDMOS device model has been overhauled extensively - + Making the manual is now much more flexible and comfortable, - xhtml manual added. - + Add pre-defined variable controlswait to enable running .control sections - after the simulation has finished (shared ngspice only) - + Add an icon to the MS Windows GUI build - + Enable more reliable memory usage data - + Support libtinfo - + add rotation angle to text output, vertcally aligned text for Postscript - and Windows y-axis plot labels - + enable postscript output for extended ascii. Currently only Western - European latin-1 (ISO/IEC 8859-1) encoding is supported - + Ancient Xgraph code removed - -- Bug fixes: - + many bugs fixed (bug tracker nos. 253, 332, 337, 368, 374, 375, 376, 377, 378, - 379, 380, 381, 384, 385, 386) - + ancient bug removed that led to spurious heap corruption of shared ngspice - under (very sensitive) Windows 10 - + memory leaks removed - -Ngspice-29, Sept 30th, 2018 -============ - -- New features: - + new variable no_auto_gnd. If set, the automatic replacing of gnd by 0 - is disabled - + new compatibility modes for 'set behavior=??'. ps sets PSPICE, lt sets - LTSPICE compatibility, ltps is both for a file added by .include command, - psa, lta, and ltpsa are the same for the whole netlist - + .if, .elseif, .endif is now evaluated recursively, nested .if are thus - enabled - + new code model sidiode, that is a simple diode, linear breakdown, reverse - and forward regions with smooth overlapp, and optional current limits - + configure flag --with-fftw3. If set to 'no', internal fast fourier is used - instead of fftw - + command setseed to set the seed value for the random number generator - + option seed=[val|random] - + variable inputdir to remeber and retrieve the last input file directory - + example directory 'digital' with analog, behavioral and digital example input files - + new XSPICE filesource, d_source, and state-machine examples - + + or - maybe part of instance name - + Quasi-saturation VDMOS example - + add environmental variable SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH to allow reproducible executables - + new parameters to command setplot: setplot next, setplot previous - + updates to commands cd, rusage, print - + introduce diode recombination current part (ISR, NR) - + update to bipolar and diode temperature equations - -- Bug fixes: - + several bug fixes - + lots of memory leaks removed, especially when XSPICE circuits are called several - times in a loop. - - -Ngspice-28, May 27th, 2018 -============ - -- New features: - + Licenses for ngspice distribution are DFSG compatible - + VDMOS power MOS model added - + if 'set ngbehavior=ps' is given in .spiceinit, device libraries loaded - via .include may have PSPICE syntax - + --enable-oldapps configure flag to compile the old, seldom used apps - ngnutmeg, ngmakeidx, ngmultidec, ngproc2mod, ngsconvert - + add command mc_source to internally re-load the circuit - + add command alterparam to alter the value of a parameter xxx given in .param xxx=value - + add the function i(xyz) to measure the current in node 1 of device xyz, to be - used in behavioral models. - + new label 'noretraceplot' for the 'plot' command, if graphs in a plot show unwanted - retracing lines. - + The hyphen '-' is a valid character in model, device and subcircuit names - + add noise for behavioral resistor - + add a new vector type "temperature" - + support instance parameter defaults on .model lines - + New functions for XSPICE event node data export from shared ngspice: - ngGet_Evt_NodeInfo(char*) and ngSpice_AllEvtNodes(void) - + 'edisplay' command now showing node name, node type and number of events per node - + add flag 'none' to the 'save' command for shared ngspice. - Output data will not be stored, but are available via callback function ng_data. - + add a function cm_get_circuit to allow accessing the circuit structure ckt - from within an XSPICE code model. - + add variable 'sim_status' to indicate if a simulation has been aborted - + add pkg-config file - -- Bug fixes: - + many, many ... as always - - -Ngspice-27, Aug 28th, 2017 -============ - -- New features: - + check for correct inductor coefficients - + add variable 'win_console' - + --enable-relpath configure flag to set preprocessor flag HAS_RELPATH - + sets search path for spinit relativ to current directory - + The search path for .spiceinit is: current dir, HOME dir, USERPROFILE dir - + new function stddev to calculate the standard deviation of all elements of a vector - + xspice digital n-input x m-output look-up table gate - + xspice digital model d_lut (digital n-input look-up table gate) - + add variable $sharedmode (if shared ngspice is running), to be used in scripts - + enable msys2 for mingw compilation - + OMP support for bsim3v3.24 model - + bsim3v3.24: add model parameter lmlt (Channel length scaling) - + OMP support for BSIM4.5 model - + update and extension of command 'wrdata' - + option xmu to set damping in trapezoid integration - + command 'linearize' will take time data from transient analysis vector if no circuit is loaded - + two new commands: edisplay and eprvcd - + 'edisplay' will show a list of all event nodes - + 'eprvcd' will print all event nodes in vcd format - + XSPICE 2D and 3D table models - + add variable 'batchmode' which is set when command line option `-b' is active - + enable backquote substitution for Visual Studio console apps - + update how-to-ngspice-vstudio.txt - + update visualc directory and project files, add XSPICE code model generation by VS2015 - + allow access to 4 GB memory of 32 bit ngspice on 64 bit Windows, 8 TB for 64 bit ngspice - + new variable `interactive' - + xspice, introduce cm_message_printf() - + add variable `width' to command "print line ..." - + support msys2 - + favor exponential temperatur equation if all parameters tc1, tc2 and tce are given for R - + move libfftw3 sideways out of the ngspice tree - + remove visual studio 2008 .vcproj files - + visualc/sharedspice.vcxproj, updated and migrated with visual studio 2015 - + `E..table {expr} {pairs}', `G..', allow an optional `=' after `table' - + `E..value=', `G..value=', allow `=' being optional - + introduce TCE, exponential temperature coefficient for R - + allow `temper' to be recognised when preceded by '=' - + allow cross-compilation, especially for MinGW-w64 - + allow "plot xlog ylog" (equiv to "plot loglog") - + extend qa test to hisimhv version 2 - + update hisimhv model to version 2.2.0 - + update hisim model to version 2.8.0 - + .control variable "sqrnoise" to deliver noise data in squared representation - + noise analysis, deliver results in V/sqrt(Hz) and A/sqrt(Hz) - + add delvt0 for bsim4 models - + bug fixes for diode model - + allow a xspice circuit with exclusively xspice event nodes - + man pages for cmpp ngmakeidx and ngproc2mod - + implement `nint()' - + everywhere: ln to the base e, log to the base e, log10 to the base 10 - + allow an optional '=' in ".func foo() = {expr}" - + bsim4, update to version 4.8 - + update hisimhv to version 1.2.4 - + cmc quality check for bsim3 model - + nested indexing for vectors - + option savecurrents to save current through all devices - + option interp to plot interpolated raw file data - + MS VS 2010 project file added for compatibility - + XSPICE: new callback function cm_get_path - -- Bug fixes: - + many, many ... as always - -Ngspice-26, Jan 4th, 2014 -============ - -- New features: - + fft command may (optionally) use fftw3 library - + add nint() rounding function - + usage of 'temper' in behavioral devices - + check for soa (safe operating area) in several device models - + library processing rewritten completely to enhance ngspice - compatibility (.lib) - + include file processing rewritten to allow nesting and various - absolute and relative path names (.inc) - + asinh, acosh, atanh functions - + shared ngspice option added: ngspice optionally compiles as - a shared object or dynamic link library - + use a hash table to massively speed up parsing the netlist - + implement a very basic .if/.else block - + implement a signed power function `pwr' for controlled sources - + implement multiplier `m' in F, G source - + apply Area Calculation Method (ACM) to the bsim3v3.3 model - + implement `tc1', `tc2' instance parameters - -- Bug fixes: - + many, many ... please see - http://sourceforge.net/p/ngspice/ngspice/ci/master/tree/ - and check the 'history' button on the upper right. - + removed memory leaks - - -Ngspice-25, Jan 4th, 2013 -============ - -- New features: - + add temperature coefficients for B source - + commands "mdump", "mrdump" to dump matrix to file - + allow `time', `temper', and `hertz' in expressions with behavioral R, L, C - + Enable ctrl-c to interrupt a simulation also for Windows GUI - + tests/bsim4: use the standard CMC model qa check - + implement exit code for command "quit" - + .nodeset all = value - + memristor code model in extradev - + new scalable diode model including tunnel component - + variable xtrtol may override the XSPICE reduction of trtol - + XSPICE example: delta-sigma converter - + XSPICE: new d_source model - + new option noopac - + bsim3: make additonal parameters accessible with @mxx[par] - + enable Mac OS X compilation - + option reseries = val - + commands "snsave", "snload" - + update hisim to version 2.7.0, new qa tests - + hisimhv update to version 1.2.3, new qa tests - + allow Ctrl-d to quit - + jfet model temperature extension, tcv and bex parameter - + speed up vector handling by hash table for vector address storage and retrieval - + update PSS code - - -- Bug fixes: - + many, many ... please see - http://ngspice.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=ngspice/ngspice;a=shortlog;pg=0 - + remove memory leaks - + update tclspice for MS Windows - + adms3 removed due to licensing issues - - -Ngspice-24, Jan 29th, 2012 -============ - -- New features: - + .csparam allows to tranfer a param into a vector in .control ... .endc - + functions floor and ceil - + syntax Gxxx n1 n2 TABLE {expression} = (x0, y0) (x1, y1) (x2, y2) - + syntax Gxxx n1 n2 value={equation} or Exxx n1 n2 value={equation} - + variable strict_errorhandling to exit ngspice with exit code 1 - if any error occurs during circuit parsing - + command altermod allows reading from file - + command "devhelp" to show available devices and describe device parameters - + command "inventory" to print the number of istances of each device. - + function cph(vec) delivers phase from a vector without jumps at +-PI - + enable 64 bit compilation in MS Visual Studio - + --adms3 flag to compile with (experimental) adms code - + still very experimental pss code - + command 'remcirc' to remove a circuit from the list - + command 'wrdata' aknowledges appendwrite and prints complex variables - + allow comment lines inside of command files - + path variable NGSPICE_INPUT - + 'Filesource' code model - -- Bug fixes: - + More on prototypes, type casts, reordering of functions, compiler warnings - + fix a numerical problem in the hisim2 and hisimhv models - + plot i(vdd) from a loaded rawfile - + fix the guard for device generated internal nodes (via CKTmkVolt()) - + reduce memory leaks for command 'reset' - + parameter processing for nested .subckt - + bsim4/b4noi.c: correct init the correlated noise slot in noiseDens and lnNdens vector - + Many small bugs - -Ngspice-23, June 5th, 2011 -============ - -- New features: - + Reduction of trtol to 1 only if 'A' devices in the circuit and xspice is enabled - + command wrs2p to write a s-parameter file using Touchstone vers. 1 format - + d_source d_state d_ram, test cases for those xspice codemodels - + transient noise simulation added to independent voltage and current sources - + Random telegraph noise added to independent voltage and current sources - + 'time = nnn' in stop command added - + random voltage generator option trrandom to independent voltage and current sources - + ngspice build possible in a separate directory (e.g. in ng-spice-rework/release) - + update FIND .. WHEN measurements - + diode & bjt temperature model update with tlev and tlevc - + merge bsim3v1a code with bsim3v0 and bsim3v1s code with bsim3v1 - + bjt2: removed - all GP extensions of this model are now in the bjt model - + HiSIM_HV model vers. 1.2.1 added - + bsim3v32: delvto and mulu0 as instance parameters - + Replace HiSIM1 by HiSIM_2.5.1_Release_20110407 - -- Bug fixes: - + More on prototypes, type casts, reordering of functions, compiler warnings - + allow models like 2N2904 or 2SK136 also in subcircuits - + fix sensitvity calculation (for the dc-2+.cir testcase) - + allow multiple call to setup w/ correct node collapsing - + Many small bugs - -Ngspice-22, Sept 26th, 2010 -============ - -- New features: - + OpenMP multicore support for BSIM3, BSIM4, and BSIMSOI4 - + reinstate {$var} expansion in interactive interpreter - + .TITLE line added - + update to 'spectrum' script - + par('expression') in .four, .plot, .print, .meas, .save commands - + command 'option' for use in spinit, .spiceinit, and in scripts - + adms procedure updated - + new random number generator, random functions sunif() and sgauss() - + ngspice manual updated - -- Bug fixes: - + Major code cleanup to reduce compiler/linker warnings: ansi function prototypes, - void/char pointers to named pointers, explicit type casts and many more - + Many small bugs - - -Ng-spice-rework-21, Jun3, 13th 2010 -============ - -- Updated Devices: BSIMSOI 4.3.1 - -- New features: - + Compatibility: C, L, R, devices and E, G sources with expressions - Variables HERTZ, TIME, TEMPER added - + E, G sources with pwl function - + New manual - + Plotting with Gnuplot, - + Writing wrdata for simple text table to file - + .measure improved - + transmission line models improved - -- Bug fixes: - + Many small bugs, memory leaks, memory overflows - -Ng-spice-rework-20, November, 16th 2009 -============ - -Ngspice release 20 is the second release of the simulator in 2009. - -- Fixes: model names starting with a number (1n4001) are now correctly parsed. - The .global command has been reinstated (it was previously disabled) and - error messages now display the corresponding line numberin the input deck. -- New Features: .measure command for transient, ac and dc analyses (still not - complete, e.g. DERIV is missing). -- Devices: Updated BISM4 model to revision 4.6.5. Added PWL (PieceWise Linear) - functionality for B (arbitrary generator) sources. - - -Ng-spice-rework-19, April, 23rd 2009 -============ - -Ngspice release 19 came early after release 18. It reveals an important work -in compile scripts, many bug fixes in memory management, interface, and work in device models. - -- Compile scripts: tclspice and ADMS compiling fixes. Architecture compiling - fixes for SunOS, MS Visual Studio, MINGW, Cygwin. -- Memory management: fixed memory leaks, modifies memory management for - MS Windows, integration of espice bugfixes and enhancements, bug fixes in - plots and cli interface. -- Rework of BSim models, integration of EPFL-EKV model V2.63, ADMS models - mextram, hicum0, hicum2. - - -Ng-spice-rework-18 -============ - -Rework-18 is introduces several new features into ngspice. This is a major -release that comes after more than three years. During the silent years -ngspice developers worked in CVS to stabilize and introduce new features -into the simulator. - -- Tclspice simulator library has been merged with ngspice. Now you can - compile ngapice or tclspice by asserting a configure switch. See README.tcl -- New options have been introduced: brief, listing, autostop and scale -- Support for .lib file has been introduced. This allows the use of - third party model libraries in ngspice. -- .measure statements: avg, integ, rms, max, min, delay, param -- .global statements t support for global nodes whose name is not expanded - when flattening the netlist. -- .func macros for inlining functions into netlists. -- Improved the numparam library to support fully parametrized netlists. -- BSIM model binning. -- new multi-input gate VCVS using XSPICE extensions. - - -Ng-spice-rework-17 -============ - -This is a bug fix release. Previous release tarball did not included -an include file necessary for compiling numparam library. - - -Ng-spice-rework-16 -============ - -Rework-16 comes out after almost one year of CVS development (from -15-fixedRC3). This release improves ngspice in three ways: - -- Bug fixing: most of the bugs that affected rework-15 have been fixed, - thus ngspice is more stable, especially the xspice extension, the - subcircuit (X devices) handling and the numparam library. - -- New features: netlist syntax has been expandend allowing for end-of-line - comments. A ".global" card has beed added to define global nodes, i.e. - nodes that are not expanded in subcircuits. It is possible to define TC - for resistors on the instance line. The editline library can be used - instead of readline (no more GPL license violation). - -- Porting: ngspice now works (with xspice extension) on Windows using - MINGW/MSYS. - - -Ng-spice-rework-15 -============ - -Rework-15 release is a giant leap forward for ngspice. It incorporates -many (read most) of the improvements implemented in tclspice during the -two years long "sleep" of ngspice and adds many others. The incomplete -list of new features incorporated are: - - - Xspice simulator (with codemodel dynamic loading support): - a mixed signal simulator built upon spice3. - - - Cider simulator: - a mixed level simulator built upon spice3. - - - Numparam library: - a library that allows for parameter substitution at netlist level. - - - Improved models: - Diode model includes periphery effects and high level of injection effects, - BJT and BJT2 enhanced. - BSIM3 now includes ACM. - BSIM4 implementation corrected. - - -New models: - VBIC (3 Terminals, no excess phase and thermal network), - HiSIM. - - - Frontend leaks closed. - Now frontend works as it should. - - - Many new example file. - - - Xgraph plotting program included. - - -Ng-spice-rework-14 -============ - -This is a major release in terms of bug-fixes. Some enhancements -have been included: BSIM4 model and support for EKV model. The -source code for the latter must be obtained from EKV web site -(see DEVICE for more info). To enable EKV support you have -to obtain the code first and then use the configure switch -"--enable-ekv". - -The spice code contains an option to debug frontend code, now -this is available in configure as "--enable-ftedebug". - - - -Ng-spice-rework-13 -============ - -This is a major release in terms of fixes and enhancements. -A garbage collector support has been added. If the configuration -script detects that you have installed GC (Bohem-Weiser conservative -garbage collector), it will use it. Some memory leaks have been -fixed too. - -Enhancements to the code comes from Alan's contribute code, a -description of improvements follows (extracted form Alan's mail): - -Output File Format Changes - - - (NOTE: Do not rely on this, we may revert to the old format - in the next release). - - Text mode .OP results even though "rawfile" written. - - Internal device nodes are not saved to "rawfile" (reduces - file size). Optionally, these internal nodes can be replaced - by device currents and saved. - - -DC Convergence Enhancements - - - "Source-Stepping" algorithm modified with a "Dynamic" step size. - After each successful step, the node voltages are saved, the - source-factor is increased by the step-factor, and the step-factor - is increased (for the next step). If the step fails, i.e. the - circuit does not converge, the source-factor is set to the value - from the previous successful step, the previously stored node - voltages are restored, the step-factor is reduced, the source - factor is increased by this smaller step-factor, and convergence - is attempted again. - - Same thing done for "Gmin-stepping" algorithm. - - "Gshunt" option added. This sets the "diagGmin" variable used in - the gmin-stepping algorithm to a non-zero value for the final - solution. (Normally this is set to zero for the final solution). - This helps for circuits with floating nodes (and for some others - too). - - The Gmin implementation across the substrate diodes of MOS1, MOS2, - MOS3, MOS6 and BSIM3 devices, and across BJT base-emitter and - base-collector diodes, was incorrect. Correcting this dramatically - improved DC convergence. (I think this also affects BSIM1 and 2 - but I haven't fixed them yet !) - - The gm, gmb and gds calculations in the MOS3 model were all wrong. - The device equations were fixed, leading to much improved - convergence. - - The Vcrit value used for diode voltage limiting was calculated - without taking into account the device area (and in some cases - without using the temperature corrected saturation current). - This could cause floating point overflows, especially in device - models designed to be scaled by a small area, e.g. 2u by 2u diodes - (area=4e-12). This is now fixed for Diode, BJT, MOS1, MOS2, and - MOS3 models. - - The diode voltage limiting was modified to add negative voltage - limiting. Negative diode voltages are now limited to 3*Vdp-10, - where Vdp is the voltage from the previous iteration. If Vdp is - positive, then the voltage is limited to -10V. This prevents some - more floating point overflows. (Actually, I'm still playing with - the best values for this). - - The Spice3 "fix" for the MOS3 gds discontinuity between the - linear and saturated regions only works if the VMAX parameter - is non-zero. A "tweak" has been added for the VMAX=0 case. - - -Transient Convergence Enhancements - - - Temperature correction of various diode capacitances was implemented - slightly incorrectly, leading to capacitance discontinuities in - simulations at temperatures other than nominal. This affected the - Diode and MOS3 models. - - A mistake in the implementation of the MOS3 source-bulk capacitance - model resulted in a charge storage discontinuity. This has been fixed. - - The level 2 MOSFET model seems to calculate Von and Vth values for - the threshold and subthreshold values respectively, but then uses - Vbin to calculate the Vdsat voltage used to find the drain current. - However, a jump statement uses Von to decide that the device is in - the "cutoff" region, which means that when this jump allows the - drain current to be calculated, Vdsat can already be well above - zero. This leads to a discontinuity of drain current with respect - to gate voltage. The code is now modified to use Vbin for the jump - decision. It looks like the code should actually use Vth as the - threshold voltage, but since other SPICE simulators follow the - original Berkeley code, this was left alone. - - -New Model Parameters - - - A device multiplier instance parameter "M" (i.e. M devices in - parallel) was added to the MOS1,2,3 and BSIM3 mosfet models. - - -Input Read-in and Checking - - - Numbers beginning with a + sign got the input routine confused. - Fixed now. - - Attempts to nodeset (or .IC) non-existent nodes are flagged with a - warning. - - PWL statements on Voltage or Current sources are now checked for - "non-increasing" time-points at the start of the simulation. - Previously each time-point was checked as it was reached during - the simulation, which could be very annoying if you made a mistake - which caused the simulation to fail after hours of run-time. - - A check which was performed at the end of each sub-circuit expansion - was moved to the top level. This check makes sure that all sub-circuits - have been defined, but in its original position, it meant that if a - sub-circuit included ANY .MODEL statements at all, then ALL the models - called in that sub-circuit must also be defined within that - sub-circuit. Now SPICE behaves as expected, i.e. a subcircuit may - define its own models, but may also use models defined at any level - above. - - -Miscellaneous Fixes/Enhancements - - - MOS devices reported only half of the Meyer capacitances, and did not - include overlap capacitances, when reporting to the .OP printout, or - when storing device capacitances to the "rawfile". - - The ideal switch devices had no time-step control to stop their - controlling voltages/currents overshooting the switching thresholds. - The time-step control has been modified to use the last two time - points to estimate if the next one will move the controlling - voltage/current past a switching threshold. If this looks likely, - then the time-step is reduced. - - The "rawfile" writing routines have been modified to print the - "reference value" to the console during the simulation. This lets - the user see exactly how far and how fast the simulation is - proceeding. - - .OP printout tidied up a lot to make the printout clearer. - - Analysis order changed to fix a "feature" where, if you ask for - a .OP and a .TRAN in the same simulation, the node voltages - printed out correspond to the .OP, but the device data was from - the last timepoint of the .TRAN - - -Etc. - - - There are other minor bug fixes, and changes to reduce compiler - warnings. There are probably some more significant fixes which - I've forgotten :-) - - -Ng-spice-rework-12 -============ -Arno did a great work this summer! -The pole-zero analysis has been corrected. The error was introduced -in an attempt to eliminate compiler warnings. The source has been -reworked and info file have been updated. As you may see, a new dir -called "spicelib" has been created, another step toward the separation -of the simulator from the frontend. - -Ng-spice-rework-11 -============ - -Resistor code (device) has been modified to conform to spice3 device -coding standard. -A new step function (U2) has been introduced. -Documentation updated. - -Ng-spice-rework-10 -============ - -Added BSIM4 model and closed a couple of serious bugs. Added DEVICES -file to distribution. This file contains the status of device models -in this simulator. Read it, this file can save you a lot of time. - -Ng-spice-rework-9 -============ - -Thanks to Arno Peters now all device models are dynamically loaded on -demand. They are linked as shared libraries. The next step is the -dlopen() one which will make possible to link devices without any -recompilation. - - - -Ng-spice-rework-8 -============ - -Applied Arno's patch. - -From his mail message: - -Hi Paolo, - -I have prepared a source cleaning patch. - -Features: - - + patches don't get polluted with differences between automatically - generated Makefile.am files. Usually these make up the biggest part - of the patches. This allows me to read the patch on the mailing - list instead of sifting through 90% redundant and irrelevant changes. - - + the shell script autogen.sh automatically regenerates the required - files if the user has automake, autoconf and libtool installed. - - + this feature is only valuable to developers, not to end users. - - -Usage of this patch, once incorporated: - - # create a working tree to work from - cp -a ng-spice-rework-x ng-spice - - [ Changes made to ng-spice ] - - # clean up all the automatically generated files - cd ng-spice; make maintainer-clean - - # extract the differences - diff -ruN ng-spice-rework-x ng-spice > my.patch - - [ Patch sent to ng-spice mailing list or you ] - - # incorporate changes into the tree - cd ng-spice-rework-x; patch -p1 < my.patch - - # update the automatically generated files - cd ng-spice-rework-x; sh autogen.sh - - - - -Ng-spice-rework-7 (22 Mar 2000) -============ - -Bug fix release - - - -Ng-spice-rework-6 (29 Jan 2000) -============ - -This porting includes: - -1) BSIM3V3.1 model as level 49. This is the version modified by Serban -Popescu which understands the M parameter and implements HDIF. - -2) BSIM3V3.2 model al Level 50. This is the standard Berkeley version. - -3) Now the resistor model can accepts two different values for DC and -AC resistance. - - - -Ng-spice-rework-5 and 5_2 (Jan 2000) -============ - -Internal development release, buggy and not working. - -Ng-spice-rework-4 (22/12/99) -============ - -This porting includes a new feature: - -1) dynamically loading of some device code as an experimental feature -for the future GPL simulator. Thanks to Arno Peters and Manu Rouat. - -2) Patched the following bug (thanks to Andrew Tuckey for having -supplied the patch). - - * Wsw (current controlled switch) in subckt, parsing bug. - * scale factor in arbitrary source. - * bug in noise analysis. - * save segmentation faults. - - |