Adding transient simulation top generate the operating point of a circuit The operating point of a circuit has to be established before a transient, ac, or noise simulation may be started. The procedure, as found in cktop.c is as follows: 1) Iterate the matrix with the starting values If this fails: 2) Start gmin stepping If this fails: 3) start source stepping If this again fails, bail out. In tghis branch a fourth method is added: 4) Start a transient simulation for a specific amount of time. Keep all data local. Keep the matrix values as an operating point for the simualtion following. If this fails, finally stop. The time for transient is determined a priori. If a transient simulation follows, choose 100 time the TSTEP value. If an ac or noise simulation follows, take the inverted starting frequency divided by 10 as the optran simulation time. A method to stop the op transient simulation, when all nodes have become stable, might be desirable, but has not yet been implemented. Step 1 may be skipped by option noopiter Step 2 may be skipped by option gminsteps=0 Step 3 may be skipped by option srcsteps=0