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"MARTHA" RF/Microwave CAD Using APL -- Free!
"Chuck Harris" wrote in message
... I have, and I think it is a very nice tool. Perhaps the best of the available spices. But because it is not a free tool (eg. open source) I have to live with everything just the way that Mike Englehart wants it to be. He's certainly open to input from users, Chuck -- it's part of his job. No guarantees he'd add something you'd want, of course, but in my opinion Mike is going to be a lot more responsive to the average user than, say, Synopysys would be if you asked them to add something to HSPICE. That isn't a bad thing, but it is very limiting because one day Mike won't be there to support LTSpice anymore, and LT will decide that they haven't the funds to hire some new support, and it freeze. That's a rather pessimistic viewpoint. Worst case, LTSpice simply isn't developed any more, but it'll then always still be just as good as it is the day that happens. To cease being supported is to die in software land. Everyone and everything dies at some point... MARTHA's source is open, and because anyone with the desire to support it can, it will live forever. Oh, come on... open-source software is, if anything, more likely to die than most commercial software because there's usually no profit motive behind keeping it alive. I realize that it's not quite the same in that open-source software, even if "dead," can be "resurrected" at any time whereas that's often not the case with commercial software... but there's plenty of open-source software that's been "buried" for so long now the chance of anyone resurrecting it rather than just coming up with a new "baby" from scratch is remote. ---Joel |
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