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Xanax

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Nov 2, 2003, 5:40:54 PM11/2/03
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Hi all,
I have MultiSim 2001 Personal.
I have been told be a few folk that it's not great.

I'm interested in Simulation RF circuits tank circuits etc..
Is there a program out there that can do that that is olso with in a Joe
Bloggs budget???

Xanax.


Henry

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Nov 2, 2003, 5:44:33 PM11/2/03
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Use free LTspice from www.linear.com

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Jim Thompson

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Nov 2, 2003, 5:46:21 PM11/2/03
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I think the consensus here is that Mike Engelhardt's LTSpice is
certainly the best action for the buck... it's free.

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Paul Burridge

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Nov 2, 2003, 7:39:53 PM11/2/03
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On Sun, 02 Nov 2003 15:46:21 -0700, Jim Thompson
<inv...@invalid.invalid> wrote:

>On Sun, 2 Nov 2003 22:40:54 -0000, "Xanax" <j...@fo.mo> wrote:
>
>>Hi all,
>>I have MultiSim 2001 Personal.
>>I have been told be a few folk that it's not great.
>>
>>I'm interested in Simulation RF circuits tank circuits etc..
>>Is there a program out there that can do that that is olso with in a Joe
>>Bloggs budget???
>>
>>Xanax.
>>
>
>I think the consensus here is that Mike Engelhardt's LTSpice is
>certainly the best action for the buck... it's free.

Hey! Jim Thompson finally admits to the supremacy of LT!
Oh happy day! :-)
--

"Windows [n.], A thirty-two bit extension and GUI shell to a sixteen bit patch
to an eight bit operating system originally coded for a four bit
microprocessor and produced by a two bit company."

Jim Thompson

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Nov 2, 2003, 7:53:49 PM11/2/03
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On Mon, 03 Nov 2003 00:39:53 +0000, Paul Burridge
<p...@osiris.notthisbit.co.uk> wrote:

>On Sun, 02 Nov 2003 15:46:21 -0700, Jim Thompson
><inv...@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>
>>On Sun, 2 Nov 2003 22:40:54 -0000, "Xanax" <j...@fo.mo> wrote:
>>
>>>Hi all,
>>>I have MultiSim 2001 Personal.
>>>I have been told be a few folk that it's not great.
>>>
>>>I'm interested in Simulation RF circuits tank circuits etc..
>>>Is there a program out there that can do that that is olso with in a Joe
>>>Bloggs budget???
>>>
>>>Xanax.
>>>
>>
>>I think the consensus here is that Mike Engelhardt's LTSpice is
>>certainly the best action for the buck... it's free.
>
>Hey! Jim Thompson finally admits to the supremacy of LT!
>Oh happy day! :-)

No I didn't! I said "best action for the buck".

EIDDO

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Nov 2, 2003, 11:32:53 PM11/2/03
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you can download the student version of APLAC, simulator RF circuits.
www.aplac.com

Kevin Aylward

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Nov 3, 2003, 2:35:03 AM11/3/03
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Paul Burridge wrote:
> On Sun, 02 Nov 2003 15:46:21 -0700, Jim Thompson
> <inv...@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 2 Nov 2003 22:40:54 -0000, "Xanax" <j...@fo.mo> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>> I have MultiSim 2001 Personal.
>>> I have been told be a few folk that it's not great.
>>>
>>> I'm interested in Simulation RF circuits tank circuits etc..
>>> Is there a program out there that can do that that is olso with in
>>> a Joe Bloggs budget???
>>>
>>> Xanax.
>>>
>>
>> I think the consensus here is that Mike Engelhardt's LTSpice is
>> certainly the best action for the buck... it's free.
>
> Hey! Jim Thompson finally admits to the supremacy of LT!
> Oh happy day! :-)

As usual, this is where you dont actually take in *exactly* what was
said:-)

Bang for the buck means BB = quality/cost.

A cost = 0, makes BB infinite. It does not make something the best
quality, as might be inferred by a claim of "supremacy".

In reality, for many/most projects, the free SuperSpice demo achieves
similar practical BB as LTSpice. This is because, if you use the
schematic hierarchy you can actually use 750 components (30 schematic
blocks * 25 component per block).

Kevin Aylward
salesE...@anasoft.co.uk
http://www.anasoft.co.uk
SuperSpice, a very affordable Mixed-Mode
Windows Simulator with Schematic Capture,
Waveform Display, FFT's and Filter Design.


Terry Pinnell

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Nov 3, 2003, 6:59:29 AM11/3/03
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"Xanax" <j...@fo.mo> wrote:

See my notes and links to some 60 ECAD programs at
http://www.terrypin.dial.pipex.com/ECADList.html
quite a few of which have simulation facilities.

Terry Pinnell
Hobbyist, West Sussex, UK

Paul Burridge

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Nov 3, 2003, 7:22:02 AM11/3/03
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On Mon, 3 Nov 2003 07:35:03 -0000, "Kevin Aylward"
<kevindotayl...@anasoft.co.uk> wrote:

>Paul Burridge wrote:
>> On Sun, 02 Nov 2003 15:46:21 -0700, Jim Thompson
>> <inv...@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, 2 Nov 2003 22:40:54 -0000, "Xanax" <j...@fo.mo> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>> I have MultiSim 2001 Personal.
>>>> I have been told be a few folk that it's not great.
>>>>
>>>> I'm interested in Simulation RF circuits tank circuits etc..
>>>> Is there a program out there that can do that that is olso with in
>>>> a Joe Bloggs budget???
>>>>
>>>> Xanax.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I think the consensus here is that Mike Engelhardt's LTSpice is
>>> certainly the best action for the buck... it's free.
>>
>> Hey! Jim Thompson finally admits to the supremacy of LT!
>> Oh happy day! :-)
>
>As usual, this is where you dont actually take in *exactly* what was
>said:-)
>
>Bang for the buck means BB = quality/cost.

Yeah, I know what ol' Jim was getting at; I was just pulling his
chain. :-)
Seriously, though, the OP was asking about RF-specific simulation, was
he not? In which case Serenade SV might be worth his while to check
out. It's fee and whilst I don't have the URL handy, I'm sure a search
under Serenade SV would bring it up.

Xanax

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Nov 3, 2003, 2:59:59 PM11/3/03
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Thanks for the links,
LTSpice isn't what I'm after. It doesn't do any UHF RF analysing. I'll check
out Serenade SV and see what it can do.
Cheers,
Xanax.
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Henry

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Nov 4, 2003, 8:39:41 AM11/4/03
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Yes, if you want a "high-level" simulation then Serenade is surely better
than LTspice.

I thought "analysis" means man-made thinking??? Otherwise we can fire all
the rf engineers... :)

- Henry

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