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+A Berkeley SPICE3 compatible circuit
+*
+* This circuit contains only Berkeley SPICE3 components.
+*
+* The circuit is an AC coupled transistor amplifier with
+* a sinewave input at node "1", a gain of approximately -3.9,
+* and output on node "coll".
+*
+.tran 1e-5 2e-3
+*
+vcc vcc 0 12.0
+vin 1 0 0.0 ac 1.0 sin(0 1 1k)
+ccouple 1 base 10uF
+rbias1 vcc base 100k
+rbias2 base 0 24k
+q1 coll base emit generic
+rcollector vcc coll 3.9k
+remitter emit 0 1k
+*
+.model generic npn
+*
+.end