From: dichter@chdasic.sps.mot.com (Carl Dichter)
Subject: Re: SPICE ftp site?
Organization: SPS
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 16:13:46 GMT


From the FAQ:
  Berkeley Spice this is no longer freely distributable.  (This includes
  even old versions of spice3.)  Documentation is available on
  ic.berkeley.edu.  General information is available from
  "spice@berkeley.edu".  For more information on how to acquire Spice,
  please send your physical mailing address to "cindy@janus.berkeley.edu"
  and request a software catalog.  This will give you all of the necessary
  information for ordering Spice3e2 and other Berkeley CAD software,
  including an order form and use agreements.  At last check, the cost for
  spice3e2 was $250.00 (this price may change without notice).
 
  Spice3e2 has been compiled on the following systems:
          DECstation/VAXstation/VAX       Ultrix 4.x      X11r4
          Sun3/Sun4                       SunOS 4.x       X11r4
          IBM RS/6000                     AIX V3          X11r3
          SGI Personal Iris               Irix 3.2
          Sequent Symmetry or Balance     Dynix 3.0       X11r4
          HP 9000/300                     HP-UX 7.0
          NextStation                     Next 2.0
          IBM PC (or compatible)          MS-DOS 3.x/Microsoft C 5.1 or later

 
  Spice3e2 is distributed in source form only.  The C compiler "gcc" has
  been used successfully to compile spice3e2, as well as the standard com-
  pilers for the systems listed above.  Note the the X11 interface to
  Spice3 requires the "Athena Widgets Toolkit" ("Xaw") which may be avail-
  able only in the "unsupported" portion of your vendor software.  Spice3
  displays graphs under X11, PostScript, or a graphics-terminal independent
  library, or as a crude, spice2-like line-printer plot.  On the IBM PC,
  CGA, EGA, and VGA displays are supported through the MicroSoft graphics
  library.  Note in particular that there is no Suntools interface.
 
  Note that for practical performance a math co-processor is required for
  an IBM PC based on the 286 processor.  A math co-processor is also recom-
  mended for the more advanced IBM PC systems.
 
  The Unix distribution comes on 1/2" 9-track tape in "tar" format.  The
  MS-DOS distribution comes on several 3.5" floppy diskettes (both high and
  low density) in the standard MS-DOS format.  The contents of both distri-
  butions are identical, including file names.
 
  Spice versions are numbered "NXM", where "N" is a number representing the
  major release (as in re-write), "X" is a letter representing a feature
  change reflected by a change in the documentation, and "M" is a number
  indicating a minor revision or bug-patch number.
 
  We anticipate that FUTURE distributions will also come on QIC-150 1/4"
  (a.k.a. "Sun cartridge tape" high density or 150MB 1/4" tape), and a
  compressed tar files on two 3.5" diskettes for Sun or VAX systems with
  (a.k.a. "Sun cartridge tape" high density or 150MB 1/4" tape), and a
  compressed tar files on two 3.5" diskettes for Sun or VAX systems with
  3.5" drives.  * Note that these future formats are anticipated but not
  guaranteed and do NOT apply for Spice3e2 *.
 
  There is no anonymous ftp access for the Spice3 source.  The manual for
  spice3e2 (in it's troff/me format or postscript format) is available via
  anonymous ftp from "ic.berkeley.edu" in the directory "pub/spice3".
  Patches or upgrades for Spice3 are _not_ normally supplied, however we
  have made exceptions to this rule.
 
                  Beorn Johnson
                  Spice maintenance
                  UC Berkeley, EECS/ERL/CAD Group
                  (beorn@ic.berkeley.edu)
 
 
  Please direct inquiries to "spice@berkeley.edu" or "spice-
  bugs@berkeley.edu"

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Carl R. Dichter 			"iwannanugui"
Motorola ASIC Division
email: dichter@chdasic.sps.mot.com
Newsgroups: comp.lsi.cad