Flexible time-domain analysis in the SPICE-PAC package

Zuberek, W.M.

Transactions of the Society for Computer Simulation, vol.7, no.1, pp.1-19, 1990.

Abstract:

SPICE-PAC is a simulation package that is upward compatible with the SPICE-2G6 circuit simulator; it accepts the same input language and supports the same set of circuit analyses as SPICE, but it also provides a number of extensions that are not available in SPICE-like programs. In particular, it is possible to `enhance' some circuit elements as well as (standard) analyses by additional conditions and functions. Several such enhancements of time-domain analysis are described in this paper. Simple examples of enhanced analysis and mixed-mode simulation illustrate these capabilities.

Keywords:

Circuit simulation, time-domain analysis, SPICE, SPICE-PAC.

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