Conversion of circuit schematics from a graphic display to a netlist and its applications

Author

Báez-López, D. ; Ballesteros, J.L. ; Pedraza-chavez, Jorge

Author_Institution

Dept. de Ingenieria Electron., Univ. de las Americas, Puebla, Mexico

fYear

1993

fDate

16-18 Aug 1993

Firstpage

1159

Abstract

A powerful tool for simulating an electrical network requires recognition of the elements and the topology of the network. The implementation of this tool can be in the form of a software package to be used as the input to a simulation tool such as SPICE. This work shows a way to capture a schematic diagram in a graphical mode, and to be able to identify each one of the elements in the network as well as to create a netlist file to be used as the input file containing a listing of the element types, values, and nodes, according to the format required by SPICE for an input file

Keywords

SPICE; circuit analysis computing; digital simulation; network topology; software packages; SPICE; circuit schematics; electrical network simulation; element types; element values; graphic display; graphical mode; netlist; network topology; software package; Circuit simulation; Circuit topology; Displays; Graphics; Keyboards; Microcomputers; Network topology; Packaging; SPICE; Software packages;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits and Systems, 1993., Proceedings of the 36th Midwest Symposium on

Conference_Location

Detroit, MI

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1760-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWSCAS.1993.343296

Filename

343296