Hi Alexandre, I do not have a recommendation for you, I learned spice
while patching the Berkeley 3f5 source to compile cleanly under Linux and
to stop it from crashing the editor ... also xcircuit to run a script that
runs spice when saving a spice netlist ... Anyway there are two basic
spice books, one of them is called the spice book (how surprising). Look
on Amazon etc. I cannot recommend them because I haven't read any of them
;-(. Maybe someone else on the list.

I've been playing with SwitchCad III and I like it but the animations and
the frequent screen redraws are a little unnerving for someone used to a
sober spice batch run under X11.  Anyway as you said, it works great and
the price is great. I think that this program will make a significant
contribution to hobbyists everywhere (at the very least). I will try it
soon under wine (windows emulator under linux). I hate to reboot for
anything other than playing games or installing hardware ;-).

Peter

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Hi, Peter

> Open the tools->SPICE and set the max timestep to at most 1/20 of the
> expected osc. period. F.ex. for 100kHz max expected osc. freq. set 5e-7
>
> This is true for any .tran analysis in any spice program I know of.

    Thanks, that did it. I am much better with digital stuff and have
almost no experience with spice simulations but maybe SwitchCad will
change that. It is a pleasure to use and the price is right.

    Do you have any recomendations for books about spice simulators ?

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