Dear Kicad developers, Greetings from Oscad Team, IIT Bombay, India! As you are already aware, we have developed Oscad <http://oscad.in> a free and open source EDA Tool for circuit design, simulation, analysis and PCB design. Oscad uses KiCad for schematic creation and PCB design. It uses Ngspice for simulation. We have made an integrated environment where these tools can be independently called and executed. We have written parsers to interface the different tools.
We are now planning to come up with a new version of Oscad, where in we would like to embed all our tools with-in KiCad itself. We would like to modify the source code of KiCad such that it generates a netlist that can be directly used with Ngspice. (Right now, we parse the KiCad netlist and make it an Ngspice compatible one). For this we plan to do the following: 1. We shall add tools in eeschema to help user add simulation parameters for ac/dc/transient simulations 2. We will add more "fields" to a component in eeschema. For eg., a Flipflop will have fields like setup time, hold time. A sinusoidal source will have fields like amplitude, frequency etc. 3. We will modify the way a "Spice" netlist is generated from eeschema. The netlist generated will now be in Ngspice format 4. We shall add tools to create "Spice models" for diodes, MOSFETs, BJTs etc from with-in eeschema. 5. We shall add a tool that "calls" Ngspice from eeschema and simulates the Ngspice netlist. We would like to know your comments and feedback. We would also request your co-operation for the new version of Oscad, that we plan to build. Thanks Oscad Team
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