Is there any example that uses Built-in SPICE model: XSpice Code Model ?
Or any good documentation describing how to properly setup Sim.* fields, etc.
I cannot figure out how to create a symbol with pins and bind it with some A* model.
I can only found all of them using as an external subcircuit.
That’s exactly how you should use it.
The subcircuit allows you to keep The A-line and associated .model line together, copes with the code model syntax and provides the proper pin assignment.
But this then always requires an external library. What I did for Eagle is that base definitions already came with a library for all of the available Xspice models.
Still interested to learn what is then the purpose of Built-in Xspice model, if you maybe know?
Probably development has started, but is not finished.
There is some dicscussion/development going on:
but the basic issues are not yet touched (symbols, instance lines, models).
Code models require the instance line (the Axx … line) and a associated .model line. How to add that without an (external) library?
This external library has to be done once, then saved in a dedicated library to become an internal library. A role model for this is available in the Simulation_SPICE library: There is Simulation_SPICE.kicad_sym with all its symbols, but there is also a Simulation_SPICE.sp which contains models for the generic opamp symbol available in Simulation_SPICE.kicad_sym.
Thank you for replies. Have done it with subcircuits, have issues not finding lcouple and core models in latest kicad v8.
Anyway, can kicad v8 use external ngspice engine, as I also need to use my modified xspice core model to support mode=3 ?
Eeschema–>File–>Export–>Netlist–>Spice–>Run External Simulator Command–>Export Netlist
Path to ngspice has to be set before ‘Export netlist’.
I meant for integrated plot, … I am using export to run ngspice manually already due to lack of the models.