ps2sp.pl1

Usage

Overview

This utility is a SPICE netlist preprocessor.

It converts netlists in PSPICE syntax to an equivalent SPICE3/XSPICE netlist syntax.

Recognized are nearly all PSPICE features like:

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local and global parameter (expression) definition (.PARAM)

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parameter (expression) passing to subcircuits (PARAMS:)

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local and global function definition (.FUNC)

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E and G-device VALUE=f(V,I), TABLE and POLY lines

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E and G-device functions like IDT(), DDT(), LIMIT(), PWRS(), PWR(), IF(), MAX(), MIN(), relational ops, ...

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R-device VALUE=f(V,I), L-device FLUX=f(V,I) and C-device Q=f(V,I)

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spice2 like C and L-device POLY expressions

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pspice VSWITCH and ISWITCH models

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pspice .PROBE lines (also with expressions)

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R-device lines with temperature coefficients like TC=tc1,tc2

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pspice .STEP PARAM lines (not yet tested on GNU/Linux)

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pspice .LIB and .INC(lude) lines (not yet tested on GNU/Linux)

Options

-h, --help displays the help screen

-v, --version

display version information and exit

-sp3

switch means conversion of pspice table to spice 3 b-source instead of xspice core model (default)

-ltspice

switch means conversion of ^ spice 3 power to ** ltspice power and addition of tripdv=1 tripdt=1 in b-lines

-debug

for debugging all .param .func and .pfunc definitions (default is nodebug)

-tosub

only output subckt expansions

-fromsub

inputfile is a sub.tmp file

-tolib

only output lib expansions

-fromlib

inputfile is a lib.tmp file

-check

determine the same count of open and closed paranthesis in b-lines (default is nocheck)

-notinylines

produces longer b-lines for some functions (default is tinylines = shorter b-lines)

-xornot

allows ^ and ~ operators in the netfile (don't mix with ^ as power operator) use the ** operator as power instead