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jharvey wrote:using kicad because of it's portability

Anyone know what MS developers use(d) - is it orcad?

I'm curious what folks might prefer for spice? I see fedora core comes with ngspice, but it looks kind of hard to use at first glance. Also I'm not sure how portable it is. I see sourceforge has a win32, but I don't know what the ngspice-rework means.

There is also http://qucs.sourceforge.net/screenshots.html it's free as in beer looks like FC8 has a copy as well. Anyone got a recommendation? Looks like I'll have to enter schematics twice to use it.

I think I'll go for qucs for now.

Jared, most software is free as in beer, but only some is free as in speech. Qucs is both :-)

License
Qucs is released under the GPL license and so it is free for free programmers and users !

qucs.sourceforge.net/index.html

Fred.

Fred wrote:Jared, most software is free as in beer, but only some is free as in speech. Qucs is both

Great, I read a forum post where some one claimed different. I probably should have confirm that. Glad to here it is free.

I don't see IGBT's in the list of premade parts. I wanted to model some of the circuits from some of the vendor data sheets. Seems I'll need to make the parts I guess. Well I've got more to learn. I'm used to doing this a bit more manually. You know with an iron.

I see http://www.st.com/stonline/products/fam ... /d2pak.htm offers models for thier IGBT's, any translators out ther by chance?