Tools and the Rust crate

spice2rack: convert a deck to every dialect

spice2rack reads existing SPICE decks and writes them out for every backend, plus the circuit as JSON and, optionally, as SpiceRack Python.

cargo run --features json --bin spice2rack -- -o out/ deck.sp [more.sp ...]

For deck.sp it writes out/deck.json and deck.ngspice.sp, deck.hspice.sp, deck.ltspice.cir, deck.spectre.scs, deck.vacask.sim and deck.espice.sp. A dialect that cannot express the circuit is reported and skipped; the rest are still written.

Flag	Effect
--python	also write deck.py, the circuit as SpiceRack Python; constructs the API cannot express go through raw_spice() under a # gap: comment
--check	run the generated Python and compare its netlist with the converted deck, and check each deck reads back unchanged in its own dialect
--dialect hspice	read HSPICE decks (default: ngspice)

The JSON circuit format

Every circuit has a JSON form (to_json(), save_json(), load_json(), see Circuits). Its schema is schema/circuit-ir.schema.json, so other tools can generate circuits for SpiceRack without Python.

Using the Rust crate

[dependencies]
spicerack = { git = "https://github.com/OpenFAT/SpiceRack", default-features = false, features = ["backend"] }

Feature	Adds
(none)	the circuit IR, the netlist generators and the .raw readers; no I/O, builds for wasm32-unknown-unknown
backend	running simulators, Verilog tools, backend checks
json	IR to and from JSON
python (default)	the Python bindings; implies backend and json