I've become familiar with ngspice on Linux (Fedora 15). I even got syntax highlighting going for .sp files in gedit. However, when I describe the circuit in a SPICE deck I have no way of telling whether I'm even describing the correct circuit. Even if I get some kind of output or result, I may have connected a circuit element to the wrong node, which would give completely different results.
My question is if there is some kind of tool that takes a SPICE decks and draws the circuit described in them?
Answer
There where some algorithms to automatically draw schematics from netlists. This was a (not very big) research topic around the 80.
That said I do not believe there are practical systems available using the result of that research.
I wonder if dot from GraphViz could be used for such quick verification tasks.
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