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1.2 Install from CVS |
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1.3 Basic Install |
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1.4 Advanced Install |
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1.4.1 Options Specific to Using Ngspice |
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1.4.2 Options Useful for Debugging Ngspice |
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1.5 Compilation using an user defined directory tree for object files |
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1.4.1 Most useful options |
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1.4.2 Options Specific to Using Ngspice |
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1.4.3 Options Useful for Debugging Ngspice |
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2 Compilers and Options |
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3 Compiling For Multiple Architectures |
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4 Installation Names |
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1.2 Install from CVS |
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This section describes how to install from source code taken direct |
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This section describes how to install from source code taken directly |
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from CVS. It is intended more for developers than for users as the code |
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in CVS may be unstable. For user install instructions using source from |
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released distributions, please see the sections titled 'Basic Install' |
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that can be passed to ./configure to customise the build and installation. |
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Preferred arguments to ./configure to obtain a comfortably working ngspice may be |
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--with-readline=yes and --disable-debug (for smaller and speed optimized |
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executable). |
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--with-readline=yes and --disable-debug. |
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A fully featured ngspice on LINUX may be obtained with the following commands: |
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$ ./autogen.sh --adms |
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$ mkdir release |
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$ cd release |
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$ ../configure --with-x --enable-xspice --disable-debug --enable-cider --with-readline=yes --enable-openmp --enable-adms |
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$ ../configure --with-x --enable-xspice --disable-debug --enable-cider --with-readline=yes --enable-openmp |
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$ make 2>&1 | tee make.log |
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$ sudo make install |
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1.4.1 Most useful options: |
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--enable-adms |
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--enable-adms |
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ADMS is an experimental model compiler that translates |
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Verilog-A compact models into C code that can be compiled into |
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ngspice. This is (as of rework.18 )still experimental and not |
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completely working. If you want to use it, please refer to the |
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ADMS section on ngspice web site. |
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ngspice. This is (as of ngspice-23) still experimental, some |
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features (e.g. noise) are missing. If you want to use it, please |
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refer to the ADMS section on ngspice web site. |
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--enable-cider |
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Cider is a mixed-level simulator that couples Spice3 and DSIM |
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to simulate devices from their technological parameters. This |
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part of the simulator is not compiled by default. |
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to simulate devices from their technological parameters. |
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--enable-xspice |
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Enable XSpice enhancements, (experimental) |
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Enable XSpice enhancements, |
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A mixed signal simulator built upon spice3 with codemodel |
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dynamic loading support. See src/xspice/README for details. |
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dynamic loading support. See the ngspice manual for details. |
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--with-readline=yes |
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--with-readline=yes |
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Enable GNU readline support for the command line interface. |
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--enable-openmp |
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Compile ngspice for multi-core processors. |
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Parallelization is done by OpenMP |
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Parallelization is done by OpenMP, for MOS models in BSIM3.3.0 |
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BSIM4.6.0 and and BSOI4 only. See the ngspice manual for details. |
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--disable-debug |
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This option will remove the '-g' option passed to the compiler |
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and add -O2 optimisation (instead of default O0). |
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This speeds up simulating significantly, and is recommended for |
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normal use. |
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1.4.2 Options Specific to Using Ngspice |
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Most of the now following options are not well maintained, are not tested or even maybe obsolete. |
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Most of the options now following are not well maintained, are not tested or even maybe obsolete. |
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--enable-capbypass |
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Bypass calculation of cbd/cbs in the mosfets if the vbs/vbd |
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voltages are unchanged. |
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--enable-capzerobypass |
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Bypass all the cbd/cbs calculations if Czero is zero. This is |
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enabled by default since rework-18. |
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--enable-cluster |
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Clustering code for distributed simulation. This is a |
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contribution never tested. This code comes from TCLspice |
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--enable-experimental |
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This enables some experimental code. Specifically it enables: |
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* support for altering options in interactive mode |
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by adding the interactive keyword 'options'. |
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* The ability to save and load snapshots: adds |
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interactive keywords 'savesnap' and 'loadsnap'. |
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Force building nghelp. This is deprecated. |
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--enable-ndev |
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Enable NDEV interface, (experimental) |
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Enable NDEV interface, (experimental, needs updating) |
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A TCP/IP interface to external device simulator such as GSS. |
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For more information, please visit the homepage of GSS at |
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http://gss-tcad.sourceforge.net |
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--enable-nobypass |
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Don't bypass recalculations of slowly changing variables |
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--enable-nosqrt |
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Use always log/exp for non-linear capacitances |
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--enable-predictor |
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Enable a predictor method for convergence |
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h_vogt
15 years ago