spice: Circuit Simulation with a SPICE3f5-Derived Engine

Runs SPICE3 netlists (.op, .dc, .tran, .ac, .pz, .noise, .disto, .tf, .sens) on Dune, a circuit simulator written in Rust and derived from Berkeley SPICE3f5, and returns the results as tidy data.

Details

The main entry points are:

• spice_run() to simulate a deck (a file or a character netlist);

• spice_plots() and spice_tidy() / tibble::as_tibble() to get at the results, one long tibble row per point and variable;

• spice_read_raw() and spice_write_raw() to exchange SPICE3 rawfiles with ngspice and other tools;

• ggplot2::autoplot() for a quick look (when ggplot2 is installed);

• a spice knitr engine: a ```{spice} chunk in R Markdown or Quarto holds a deck and leaves its result in a variable for the R chunks that follow (see spice_knitr).

See also

Useful links:

• https://milkway.github.io/dune/r/

• https://github.com/milkway/dune

• Report bugs at https://github.com/milkway/dune/issues

Author

Maintainer: André Leite leite@castlab.org

Authors:

• André Leite leite@castlab.org

Other contributors:

• The Regents of the University of California ('SPICE3f5', from which the simulation engine is derived, and 'BSIM3v3.3.0' (UC Berkeley BSIM Research Group), translated in src/rust dune-core/src/bsim3) [copyright holder]

• The ngspice team and contributors ('ngspice' 47: translated or followed in dune-core (cktop.c, com_measure2.c, the switch, source, noise and other device routines revised by 'ngspice'); see inst/COPYRIGHTS) [copyright holder]

• Holger Vogt ('ngspice' files optran.c, 1-f-code.c and randnumb.c, followed in dune-core engine.rs and trnoise.rs) [copyright holder]

• Alessio Cacciatori ('ngspice' file span.c and RF ports, translated in dune-core sp.rs) [copyright holder]

• Paolo Nenzi ('ngspice' files b1noi.c and b2noi.c, translated in dune-core bsim1.rs and bsim2.rs) [copyright holder]

• The authors of the dependency Rust crates (see inst/AUTHORS for details) [copyright holder]