Re: World's worst software. What's decent?

From: lurker (ldg_at_ix.netcom.com)
Date: 10/20/04 

Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 10:01:07 -0700

On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 10:47:14 +0100, "Leon Heller"
<leon_heller@hotmail.com> wrote:

>
>>
>> For simulation, I liked SIMetrix, their support was helpful with a few
>> questions I had about the demo.
>
>The SPICE supplied with EasyPC is SIMetrix. It has a good reputation.
>
>Leon
>

I've also looked into SIMetrix at various times, but haven't bought it
yet. The demo seemed to work great.

I'm re-evaluating my schematic capture software at the moment since it
was just sold - again. I've used ECS/Synario/Cohesion for over 10
years and it's always been reasonably priced. The new company wants
~$20k for it now: http://www.sicanvas.com/ They call it Laker AMS.

The schematic software that comes with SIMetrix will apparently read
ASCII files created by cohesion, allowing complete schematics to be
imported.

Those in the newsgroup who use ltspice will know about these ASCII
files since the ltspice format is basically cohesion, modified so they
don't quite transfer.

I don't know what the schematic capture costs by itself, but the
SIMetrix simulator plus the schematic software is still ~$5k:

http://www.catena-ffo.de/laytools.htm#sim

http://www.catena.uk.com/