SLiCAP user guide

SLiCAP is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. Based on a work at: http://www.analog-electronics.eu/slicap/slicap.html

• Download, install and configure SLiCAP
  • Download and Install SLiCAP
    • Requirements
      • MSWindows installation of maxima
      • MSWindows installation of LTspice
      • MacOS installation of maxima
    • Download SLiCAP
    • Install SLiCAP
  • Configure SLiCAP options
    • MathJax
    • Global parameters
    • Path settings
    • SLiCAP configuration parameters
  • Getting Help
• Initialize a SLiCAP project
  • HOST
  • Hz
  • Laplace
  • MaximaMatrixDim
  • MaximaTimeOut
  • PORT
  • assumePosMaxVars
  • circuitPath
  • csvPath
  • defaultColors
  • defaultLib
  • defaultMarkers
  • disp
  • docPath
  • figureAxisHeight
  • figureAxisWidth
  • figureFileType
  • frequency
  • gainColors
  • htmlIndex
  • htmlLabels.keys()
  • htmlPage
  • htmlPages
  • htmlPath
  • htmlPrefix
  • imgPath
  • installPath
  • lambdifyTool
  • lastUpdate
  • latexPath
  • legendLoc
  • libraryPath
  • ltspice
  • mathml
  • mathmlPath
  • maxRecSubst
  • maxima
  • netlist
  • normalize
  • notebook
  • plotFontSize
  • projectPath
  • socket
  • stepFunction
  • tableFileType
  • txtPath
  • userPath
• Schematic capture
  • LTspice
  • Gschem
  • Lepton-eda
  • Display schematics on html pages
  • Inkscape .svg editor
• Define a circuit
  • Create a circuit netlist
    • Differences between SPICE and SLiCAP netlist
    • Automatic generation of a netlist
• Define an instruction
  • Create a circuit object and assign it to an instruction
  • Define the simulation type
  • Define the gain type
  • Define the signal source
  • Define the detector
  • Define the loop gain reference
  • Define the matrix conversion type
  • Define the data type
• Work with parameters
  • Get all circuit parameters
  • Get all parameter definitions
  • Delete a parameter definition
  • Assign a value or an expression to a parameter
  • Assign values or expressions to multiple parameters
  • Get the definition or the numeric value of a parameter
  • Get the definitions or the numeric values of multiple parameters
• Parameter stepping
  • Define the step method
  • Define the step variable(s)
    • Linear, log and list stepping
    • Array stepping
  • Define the step values
    • Linear and logarithmic stepping
    • Stepping through a list of values
    • Array stepping
  • Enable or disable parameter stepping
• Execute an instruction
  • Execution results
    • Data type dc
    • Data type dcsolve
    • Data type dcvar
    • Data type denom
    • Data type impulse
    • Data type laplace
    • Data type matrix
    • Data type noise
    • Data type numer
    • Data type params
    • Data type poles
    • Data type pz
    • Data type solve
    • Data type step
    • Data type time
    • Data type zeros
• Work with the results
• Design of dynamic behavior
  • Obtain the coefficients of a Laplace rational
  • Determine circuit parameters from a prototype transfer
  • Estimate the bandwith and system order of a negative-feedback circuit
• Noise
  • Introduction
  • Define a noise analysis
  • Noise analysis results
  • RMS noise
  • Noise tutorials
• DC variance
  • Introduction
  • Define a dcvar analysis
    • DC variance analysis results
  • DC variance tutorials
• Pole-zero analysis
  • Data type ‘poles’
  • Data type ‘zeros’
  • Data type ‘pz’
• Create plots
  • Plots with a swept x-variable
    • Stepping parameters
    • Sweeping parameters
  • Pole-zero and root-locus plots
    • Stepping parameters and root locus plots
  • X-Y plots
  • Plot data from other applications
    • Add traces to a figure
• Balanced circuits
• Generate HTML reports
  • HTML site structure
    • Main Index.html
    • Circuit index file
  • Start a new html page
  • Place a header on an HTML page
  • Place text on an HTML page
  • Place a text file on an HTML page
  • Place an image on an HTML page
  • Place the netlist of a circuit on an HTML page
  • Place the flattened circuit data on an HTML page
  • Place all parameters on an HTML page
  • Place an expression on an HTML page
  • Place an equation on an HTML page
  • Place the circuit’s matrix equation on an HTML page
  • Place a plot on an HTML page
  • Place a csv table on an HTML page
  • Place the results of a noise analysis on an HTML page
  • Place the results of a dcvar analysis on an HTML page
  • Place the results of a pole-zero analysis on an HTML page
  • Place the coefficients of a Laplace transfer function on an HTML page
  • Place a link to an HTML object on an HTML page
  • Place all links to HTML objects on an HTML page
  • Place the step data for array stepping on an HTML page
• Generate HTML with sphinx
• Generate LaTeX reports