Re: gEDA: Switcap symbols and backend available.

[sdb-at-NOSPAMcloud9_dot_net (Stuart Brorson)]

Diggit!  Thanks for the package.  I downloaded it and installed & just
made a netlist from your ckt.sch schematic.  Doing everything was very
painless.  

Now, however, I have a problem: When I did the google search for
switcap, I found the main archive site at Columbia:

http://www.cisl.columbia.edu/projects/switcap/

Unfortunately, they have suspended distribution from this site "until
further notice".  It sounds like some kind of stupid, money-grubbing
licence problem, if you ask me.   Moreover, only one other site had a
switcap distribution & that site didn't allow me to download it
either.  

Therefore, do you have the source for switcap available anywhere, and
could you make it available somehow?  Or maybe point out a functioning
archive from which I can download the source?  I would like to play
around with it --  I am a newbie & don't know anything about switcap.

Thanks,

Stuart
mailto:sdb@cloud9.net


> 
> I've created a set of symbols and a gnetlist backend for the SWITCAP
> switched capacitor circuit simulator.  You can grab the archive at:
> 
> http://www-mtl.mit.edu/~mcmahill/outgoing/geda-switcap-20030329.tar.gz
> 
> This includes the symbols, gnet-switcap.scm file and an example circuit.
> You'll need to use this with gEDA >= 20021103.
> 
> The archive contains a README.txt with a brief description of how to use
> gEDA to drive a SWITCAP simulation.  It assumes you already know how to
> use gschem and are somewhat familiar with SWITCAP.  Also, you'll need your
> own copy of SWITCAP to run the simulations.
> 
> Enjoy!
> 
> -Dan
> 
> 
> ps.  Is there a prefered format for providing documentation on this?  I'd
> be willing to expand the README.txt file a bit and put it in whatever
> format makes the most sense for inclusion in the main gEDA documentation.
> Would this be texinfo?  html? just plain ASCII?
> 
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