SPICE
I’ve only been able to find one book on SPICE at our school library, and it’s really old. I think maybe that’s because the people who use SPICE only use the GUI interface, which is straightforward enough that they can avoid having to actually read a manual. Oddly enough, every one of my professors has mentioned SPICE to us in a vaguely recommending manner, yet they don’t seem to use it, or know much about it. Interesting…
So I ordered some books on SPICE through interlibrary-loan, they arrived today, and I just started reading one. Did you know that SPICE originated from UC Berkeley? And that it was created in a class that one professor decided to teach, just so he could build a circuit simulator? That is awesome– some day I hope decide to offer a class because it coincides with what I want to do. As opposed to taking classes that certainly do not coincide with what I want to do!
My goal is to learn the SPICE netlist format, and how to read SPICE’s output, so I don’t have to rely on the display capabilities of commercial Windows SPICEs, and I can do circuit simulations from the convenience and safety of UNIX.