Trying to figure out Kicad and ngspice integration to see if my driver works.
Unfortunately based on probing the circuit, as far as I can tell my design is sound but Kicad appears to connect the transistors wrong...grr.
In the "Alternate Node Sequence" checkbox, this is used to match KiCad and spice... what I've heard is that I should use "3 2 1" for BJTs that have external models, but does this depend on the footprint or what does this depend on?
How about for MOSFETs? Then power MOSFETs with subckt models?
These are the things that piss me off when working with schematic capture... but without schematic capture I'd rather just breadboard it. Just that magic smoke in a SPICE simulation is magical magic smoke, at least magical magic smoke can be stuffed back into the devices...
BTW, as far as I can tell, I've already sent 50 volts into the gate of my MOSFET because kicad/ngspice can't get the pinout correct. Destroyed the gate. Oh well, reset simulation, I have a brand new MOSFET!
Unfortunately based on probing the circuit, as far as I can tell my design is sound but Kicad appears to connect the transistors wrong...grr.
In the "Alternate Node Sequence" checkbox, this is used to match KiCad and spice... what I've heard is that I should use "3 2 1" for BJTs that have external models, but does this depend on the footprint or what does this depend on?
How about for MOSFETs? Then power MOSFETs with subckt models?
These are the things that piss me off when working with schematic capture... but without schematic capture I'd rather just breadboard it. Just that magic smoke in a SPICE simulation is magical magic smoke, at least magical magic smoke can be stuffed back into the devices...
BTW, as far as I can tell, I've already sent 50 volts into the gate of my MOSFET because kicad/ngspice can't get the pinout correct. Destroyed the gate. Oh well, reset simulation, I have a brand new MOSFET!
(Simulation of H-tree crossover current...)
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