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TclSpice is an improved version of Berkeley Spice designed to be used with the Tcl/Tk scripting language. The project is open-source (BSD license) and based upon the NG-Spice source code base with many improvements

TclSpice vs SmartSpice

• Fully Tcl scriptable - installs with 'package require spice' statement

• Hspice syntax (SpicePP).

• GUI interfaces, various (Tk).

  • SpiceWish (BLT graph widget)

• BLT (tcl compatible) vectors for storage, manipulation and arithmetic upon Spice waveforms.

• Xspice additions (Georgia Tech).

• Trigger upon waveform events.

• Spice 'simulator state' save and restore for rapid 'what-if' simulations (no longer need to re-simulate from the beginning each time a device value is changed).

The Latest full release of TclSpice is avaliable via the Source Forge Project Page.

• Last release v0.2.13 - August 4, 2003

• tar -zxf tclspice-0.2.*.tar.gz

• cd tclspice

• ./configure --with-tcl --enable-experimental --enable-xspice

• make tcl

• make install-tcl

Requires packages Tclreadline and BLT.

$ wish
% package require spice
% spice_init_gui (spice_file) 

or

$ spicewish (spice_file)

TclSpice is being actively developed and maintained by MultiGiG ltd (as a by-product of a Clock-verification tool) and we try to act in concert with the following independent Open-Source EDA efforts to achieve (eventually) a complete freely available but industrial quality tool-set which work together seamlessly.

• Magic VLSI editor [ tcl version ] (Tim Edwards).

• Xcircuit schematic capture package [ tcl version ] (Tim Edwards).

• Automatic Schematic Generation ( Multigig, Stephan Frezza ).

• FastHenry Inductance extractor ( Jacob White ).

• FastCap Capacitance field solver ( Jacob White ).

• OpenAccess VLSI database (www.openeda.org)

• Octtools, TimberWolf, place / router ( Berkely (formerly) ) ( sourceforge.net)

• SpicePP preprocessor for berkeley spice3f5. It adds support for some structures commercial spice provide.