SPICE+ circuit simulator

SPICE+ is a graphical user interface for the circuit simulator SPICE.

KDE 3.2 or above
A working SPICE3 installation. If you use SuSE, you just need to install the spice package.
Qwt library (4.2rc1 or above), which can be downloaded from http://qwt.sourceforge.net/
Development tools (cvs, make, g++, etc.)

Make sure that the requirements listed above are fullfilled.

1. Download the source code from CVS:

cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/spiceplus co spiceplus

When prompted for a password, just press the Enter key.

2. Download the kde-common from KDE's CVS:

cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@anoncvs.kde.org:/home/kde co kde-common

Again, when prompted for a password, just press the Enter key.

3. Enter SPICE+ directory and make a link to kde-common/admin:

cd spiceplus
ln -s ../kde-common/admin

4. Run Makefile.cvs and then the configure script:

make -f Makefile.cvs
./configure --prefix=kdedirectory

Replace kdedirectory with your own KDE directory. If you use SuSE, your KDE directory will be '/opt/kde3'.

5. Start compilation:

make

6. Switching the user to 'root' and start installation:

su
make install
exit

Finished! You can start SPICE+ now by entering 'spiceplus' or by invoking SPICE+ from the KDE menu.

The schematic editor and the model editor are working fine. The following device-plugins are implemented:

Currently only DC analysis and AC analysis (Bode, Nyquist, Linear-magnitude) are implemented.

Due to a bug in the KMDI (KDE 3.2.1) library, device windows will not be closed on document closing. In newer versions of the library (at least in KDE 3.3), the bug is fixed.
If you delete a model after selecting it from the model selector, the program will crash on the next selection. It seems that the model selector does not get updated (even though it should) after deleting the file. I guess it is a bug in kdelibs but I could not figure out exactly.

On the project page you will find mailing lists or just drop me an email directly: a_unger at gmx de