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*********************************************************************************
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*Copied and written by Stefan Jones (stefan.jones@multigig.com) at Multigig Ltd *
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*Code based on and copied from ScriptEDA *
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*(http://embedded.eecs.berkeley.edu/Alumni/pinhong/scriptEDA/) *
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*Copyright (C) 2001 Author Pinhong Chen *
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* *
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*This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or *
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*modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License *
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*as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 *
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*of the License, or (at your option) any later version. *
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* *
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*This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, *
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*but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of *
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*MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the *
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*GNU Lesser General Public License for more details. *
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* *
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*You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License *
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*along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software *
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*Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.*
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2014-01-04 15:42:57 +01:00
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WARNING!
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The text in this document has been prepared in 2006 and is partially outdated.
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It is provided here only for reference and may provide some (historical)
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information.
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2008-11-02 19:23:14 +01:00
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Welcome to tclspice README_tcl
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This file acompanies ngspice sources starting with ngspice-rework-18. It
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describes what tclspice is, its installation, and points to resources that will
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help you to start with it. It also contains usefull datas to keep informed,
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get help, or get involved in the project.
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Enjoy
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Lionel (saintel@users.sourceforge.net)
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What is tclspice:
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tclspice is a variant of ngspice. It share 95% of its code (approx). The
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different between plain NGspice and tclspice is the type of binary it produces,
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and the way to access it. NGspice is a standalone program that you can execute
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and which can either automatically process a spice directives script. It can
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also propose you a command line interface.
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tclspice is a tcl package name. It is based on libspice shared library. This
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library is specifically designed to be loaded in tcl interpreters such as tclsh
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or wish. Then all spice directives are available as tcl functions. libspice also
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feature some new commands that are usefull for the integration into the tcl
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environment.
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tclspice differs from ngspice by its printf (bundled to tcl printf), malloc (tcl
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malloc), data handling and plotting (BLT toolkit extensions to tcl/tk).
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Installing:
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Tclspice relies on three packages that are not included in ngspice:
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tcl : the tcl command interpreter, for interpretion of user scipt
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tk : the graphical extension of tcl, to represent data graphically and for GUIs
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blt : BLT toolkit gives number handling and plotting features to tcl/tk
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The most tested configuration is the latest:
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tclspice-26
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tcl 8.4
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tk 8.4
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blt 2.4
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Tclspice is built and installed the same way as ngspice. Then, after reading this
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paragraph, the information you lack will probably be in README file in this directory.
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There is a configuration flag to set in order to compile tclspice library rather than
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plain ngspice, that is a standalone program. This flag is --with-tcl. It accepts an
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argument the path to tclConfig.sh
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If you don't provide any argument, configure script will try to find it automatically.
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./configure --enable-xspice --disable-cider --disable-xgraph --enable-numparam --with-readline=no --enable-adms=no --with-tcl
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If its does not, then it will propose you some possible locations.
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can't find Tcl configuration script "tclConfig.sh"
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Should you add --with-tcl=/usr/lib/tcl8.4/tclConfig.sh to ./configure arguments?
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If it does not, check that tcl8.4 is installed, and manually specify the path.
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./configure --enable-xspice --disable-cider --disable-xgraph --enable-numparam --with-readline=no --enable-adms=non --with-tcl=/usr/lib/tcl8.4
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Tclspice is not compatible with ngspice graphical code. Then when building tclspice,
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--no-x is automatically configured.
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Support and help :
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First of all (but last recourse), mail me at saintel@users.sourceforge.net
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For any kind of information on tclspice:
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http://ngspice.sourceforge.net/tclspice.html
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It gives plenty of information. There is an index of good resources that you can
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read to get into tclspice quickly and proficently.
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