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ngspice: circuit simulator derived from spice]3f5

NAME

ngspice - circuit simulator derived from spice]3f5

SYNOPSIS

ngspice [options] [file ...]

DESCRIPTION

This man page is just a small overview. The primary documentation of ngspice is in the ngspice] User's Manual, which is available as a pdf file.

OPTIONS

-n or --no-spiceinit
Don't try to source the file ".spiceinit" upon startup. Normally ngspice] tries to find the file in the current directory, and if it is not found then in the user's home directory.
-q or --completion
Enable command completion. (defect)
-t term or --term=term
The program is being run on a terminal with mfb name term.
-b or --batch
Run in batch mode. ngspice] will read the standard input or the specified input file and do the simulation. Note that if the standard input is not a terminal, ngspice] will default to batch mode, unless the -i flag is given.
-s or --server
Run in server mode. This is like batch mode, except that a temporary rawfile is used and then written to the standard output, preceded by a line with a single "@", after the simulation is done. This mode is used by the ngspice daemon.
-i or --interactive
Run in interactive mode. This is useful if the standard input is not a terminal but interactive mode is desired. Command completion is not available unless the standard input is a terminal, however.
-r rawfile or --rawfile=file
Use rawfile as the default file into which the results of the simulation are saved.
-c circuitfile or --circuitfile=circuitfile
Use circuitfile as the default input deck.
-h or --help
Display a verbose help on the arguments available to the program.
-v or --version
Display a version number and copyright information of the program.
-a or --autorun
FIXME
-o outfile or --output=outfile
All logs generated during a batch run (-b) will be saved in outfile.
-p or --pipe
Allow a program (e.g., xcircuit) to act as a GUI frontend for ngspice through a pipe. Thus ngspice will assume that the pipe is a tty and allows to run in interactive mode.

Further arguments are taken to be spice] input decks, which are read and saved. (If batch mode is requested then they are run immediately.)

ENVIRONMENT

SPICE_LIB_DIR
SPICE_EXEC_DIR
SPICE_HOST
SPICE_BUGADDR
SPICE_EDITOR
SPICE_ASCIIRAWFILE default 0
Format of the rawfile. 0 for binary, and 1 for ascii.
SPICE_NEWS default $SPICE_LIB_DIR/news
A file which is copied verbatim to stdout when ngspice starts in interactive mode.
SPICE_MFBCAP default $SPICE_LIB_DIR/mfbcap
SPICE_HELP_DIR default $SPICE_LIB_DIR/helpdir
SPICE_SCRIPTS default $SPICE_LIB_DIR/scripts
In this directory the spinit file will be searched.
SPICE_PATH default $SPICE_EXEC_DIR/ngspice

various undocumented ngspice centric environment variables :

NGSPICE_MEAS_PRECISION
SPICE_NO_DATASEG_CHECK

Common environment variables :

TERM LINES COLS DISPLAY HOME PATH EDITOR SHELL
POSIXLY_CORRECT

FILES

$SPICE_LIB_DIR/scripts/spinit
The System's Initialisation File.
.spiceinit or $HOME/.spiceinit
The User's Initialisation File.

BUGS

Please report bugs to the ngspice project via
http://ngspice.sourceforge.net/bugrep.html

AUTHORS

spice3: Tom Quarles (quarles [at] cad.berkeley.edu)
nutmeg: User interface: Wayne Christopher (faustus [at] cad.berkeley.edu)
ngspice: various authors (see http://sourceforge.net/projects/ngspice/)

SEE ALSO

sconvert(1), ngnutmeg(1), mfb(3), writedata(3), and
ngspice] User's Manual at http://ngspice.sourceforge.net/docs.html