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5 This archive contains a set of symbols and a netlister backend for the
6 gEDA to drive SWITCAP simulations. gEDA is the GNU EDA project and
7 includes a schematic capture tool and a highly flexible netlister.
8 The SWITCAP program is a switched capacitor circuit simulator.
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14 The basic steps involved with using gEDA as the frontend for SWITCAP
17 - configure the gEDA symbol search path
18 - set the gEDA netlister backend search path
19 - create schematics of the circuit
20 - create an analysis file
22 - run the SWITCAP simulation
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28 1) Set your symbol search path for gschem and gnetlist by adding
29 the following line to the 'gschemrc' and 'gnetlistrc' files in
30 your project directory.
32 (component-library "/path/to/sym/switcap")
34 If those files do not exist, then create them. You will need to
35 replace /path/to/sym/switcap with the directory name where you
36 have installed the .sym files.
38 2) Set the search path for scheme files for gnetlist by adding the
39 following line to your 'gnetlistrc' file.
41 (scheme-directory "/path/to/scheme")
43 You will need to replace /path/to/scheme with the path to where
44 you have installed the gnet-switcap.scm file.
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49 IV. Creating Schematics
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56 This section assumes you are familiar with using gschem to create and
57 edit schematics. SWITCAP netlisting is only supported for the
58 components contained in the SWITCAP symbol library as well as the
59 ground symbol found in the 'power' library which comes with gEDA. All
60 allowed SWITCAP elements except for subcircuits are supported. You
61 _must_ include the following elements on your schematic:
63 - one instance of the switcap-timing symbol. This symbol will set the
64 master clock period for your simulations.
66 - one or more instances of the switcap-clock symbol. This symbol
67 defines a clock with a particular phase and period. The reference
68 designator of the clock symbol is used by the switches to set what
71 - one or more instances of the switcap-analysis symbol. This symbol
72 defines an analysis by specifying a file to include in the SWITCAP
79 You can also optionally add the following SWITCAP special symbols to
82 - zero or one instance of the switcap-title symbol. This will add a
83 TITLE: line to the SWITCAP netlist and will appear in the output
86 - zero or one instance of the switcap-options symbol. By editing the
87 OPTIONS attribute on this symbol you can set the various options
88 which can be passed to SWITCAP.
94 When creating schematics to drive SWITCAP, you should name all nets
95 that you wish to plot. To avoid possible conflicts with unnamed nets,
96 you should avoid using purely numerical names for nets because
97 all unnamed nets will be assigned (somewhat randomly) numbers.
98 SWITCAP limits the length of node names to 7 characters.
104 When placing switches on your schematic, you will need to define
105 which clock they are controlled with. This is done by setting
106 the clock attribute on the switch to the reference designator
107 of the clock which should control it.
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110 V. Extracting the SWITCAP Netlist
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113 To extract the SWITCAP netlist, run
115 gnetlist -g switcap -o test.scn file1.sch [file2.sch ...]
117 For the example file contained in this archive, you can run:
119 gnetlist -g switcap -o example.scn ckt.sch clocks.sch analysis.sch
121 The netlist will be left in example.scn.
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127 I typically use something like:
129 printf "example.scn\nexample.out" | sw
131 so I can use command history to rerun SWITCAP without having to
132 manually type the file names each time.
134 Refer to the SWITCAP manual for more details.