ngspice - circuit simulator derived from SPICE3f5
ngspice [options] [file ...]
This man page is just a small overview. The primary documentation
of ngspice is in the ngspice User's Manual, which is available as a pdf
file.
- -n or
--no-spiceinit
- Don't try to source the file ".spiceinit" upon startup. Normally
ngspice tries to find the file in the current directory, and if it is not
found then in the user's home directory.
- -q or
--completion
- Enable command completion. (defect)
- -t term or
--term=term
- The program is being run on a terminal with mfb name
term.
- -b or --batch
- Run in batch mode. ngspice will read the standard input or the specified
input file and do the simulation. Note that if the standard input is not a
terminal, ngspice will default to batch mode, unless the -i flag is
given.
- -s or
--server
- Run in server mode. This is like batch mode, except that a temporary
rawfile is used and then written to the standard output, preceded by a
line with a single "@", after the simulation is done. This mode
is used by the ngspice daemon.
- -i or
--interactive
- Run in interactive mode. This is useful if the standard input is not a
terminal but interactive mode is desired. Command completion is not
available unless the standard input is a terminal, however.
- -r rawfile or
--rawfile=file
- Use rawfile as the default file into which the results of the
simulation are saved.
- -c circuitfile or
--circuitfile=circuitfile
- Use circuitfile as the default input deck.
- -h or --help
- Display a verbose help on the arguments available to the program.
- -v or
--version
- Display a version number and copyright information of the program.
- -a or
--autorun
- FIXME
- -o outfile or
--output=outfile
- All logs generated during a batch run (-b) will be saved in
outfile.
- -p or --pipe
- Allow a program (e.g., xcircuit) to act as a GUI frontend for ngspice
through a pipe. Thus ngspice will assume that the pipe is a tty and allows
one to run in interactive mode.
Further arguments are taken to be SPICE input decks, which are
read and saved. (If batch mode is requested then they are run
immediately.)
- $SPICE_LIB_DIR/scripts/spinit
- The System's Initialisation File.
- .spiceinit or $HOME/.spiceinit
- The User's Initialisation File.
Please report bugs to the ngspice project via
http://ngspice.sourceforge.net/bugrep.html
spice3: Tom Quarles (quarles@cad.berkeley.edu)
nutmeg: User interface: Wayne Christopher (faustus@cad.berkeley.edu)
ngspice: various authors (see
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ngspice/)