Bug 937343 – sci-electronics/xyce [new package] (parallel version of spyce/ngspice by Sandia)

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: UNCONFIRMED ---

[Description VK2DIY 2024-08-05 03:26:24 UTC]

While designed to be SPICE-compatible, Xyce is not a derivative of SPICE. Xyce
was designed from scratch to be a parallel simulation code, written in C++ and
using a message-passing implementation (MPI). Xyce also leverages Sandia's
open-source solver library, Trilinos,
which includes a number of circuit-specific solvers, such as the KLU direct
solver. With its modular and flexible design, Xyce applies abstract interfaces
to enable easy development of different analysis types, solvers and models.

Xyce is compatible with SPICE-based codes, in that it supports a canonical set
of SPICE compact models and standard SPICE analysis methods, such as
steady-state (`.DC`), transient (`.TRAN`), small-signal frequency domain
(`.AC`), and noise (`.NOISE`). However, Xyce goes beyond most SPICE-based codes
in a number of ways, including support for a large number of non-traditional
models, such as neuron and reaction network models. Xyce also supports Harmonic
Balance analysis (`.HB`), random sampling analysis, sensitivity calculations,
and post processing of the simulation metrics (`.FOUR` and `.MEASURE`). In
addition to analog electronic simulation, Xyce has also been used to
investigate more general network systems, such as neural networks and power
grids. In providing an Open Source version of Xyce to the external community,
Sandia hopes to contribute a robust and modern electronic simulator to users
and researchers in the field.

Can't post the address but just search for it you will find the github page.

Might need to add a Trilinos package first.