PS2SP(1)

💖 PS2SP(1) — the manual page, but make it cute 💖

okay bestie, so ps2sp is a thing that exists, it lives in the User Commands section of the manual, and I'm about to explain the whole thing to you. no gatekeeping here 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

ps2sp — manual page for ps2sp version 4.14. that's it, that's the name, iconic of it.

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

ps2sp [OPTION] infile > outfile

like. you feed it a file, you send the output somewhere. simple as that, queen 🎀

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so this utility? it's a SPICE netlist preprocessor. that's its whole job.

it converts netlists written in PSPICE syntax into an equivalent SPICE3/XSPICE netlist syntax. glow-up for your netlist, fr fr.

and the way that it recognizes nearly all PSPICE features?? obsessed. here's the list:

• local and global parameter (expression) definition (​.PARAM)
• parameter (expression) passing to subcircuits (PARAMS:)
• local and global function definition (​.FUNC)
• E and G-device VALUE=f(V,I), TABLE and POLY lines
• E and G-device functions like IDT(), DDT(), LIMIT(), PWRS(), PWR(), IF(), MAX(), MIN(), relational ops, ...
• R-device VALUE=f(V,I), L-device FLUX=f(V,I) and C-device Q=f(V,I)
• spice2 like C and L-device POLY expressions
• pspice VSWITCH and ISWITCH models
• pspice ​.PROBE lines (also with expressions)
• R-device lines with temperature coefficients like TC=tc1,tc2
• pspice ​.STEP PARAM lines (not yet tested on GNU/Linux)
• pspice ​.LIB and ​.INC(lude) lines (not yet tested on GNU/Linux)

heads up bestie — those last two are marked not yet tested on GNU/Linux. no cap, the manpage literally says that. don't come for me, come for the source 🫶

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

one bullet per flag, all of them, no skipping, periodt.

• -h, --help — displays the help screen
• -v, --version — display version information and exit
• -sp3 — this switch means conversion of pspice table to spice 3 b-source instead of xspice core model (this is the default, so like, you're already doing it)
• -ltspice — this switch means conversion of ^ spice 3 power to ** ltspice power and addition of tripdv=1 tripdt=1 in b-lines
• -debug — for debugging all ​.param ​.func and ​.pfunc definitions (default is nodebug)
• -tosub — only output subckt expansions
• -fromsub — inputfile is a sub.tmp file
• -tolib — only output lib expansions
• -fromlib — inputfile is a lib.tmp file
• -check — determine the same count of open and closed paranthesis in b-lines (default is nocheck)
• -notinylines — produces longer b-lines for some functions (default is tinylines = shorter b-lines)
• -xornot — allows ^ and ~ operators in the netfile (don't mix with ^ as power operator) use the ** operator as power instead

careful bestie!! -xornot says do NOT mix it with ^ as a power operator. if you're gonna use ^ and ~ as operators, you gotta use ** for power instead. that's the vibe check and you failed it if you mix them 😭

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🙈 REPORTING BUGS 🙈

found a bug? (not me manifesting one, but like, if) report bugs to Friedrich Schmidt <frie.schmidt@aon.at>. tell him I said hi 💖

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👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

Copyright © 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 Friedrich Schmidt <frie.schmidt@aon.at>

This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

translating for the girlies: it's free software, go read the source for the copying conditions, and there is absolutely NO warranty — not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. no take-backs, no refunds, she said what she said 💀

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and that's the whole page bestie!! ✨ this was ps2sp version 4.14, dated June 2007, from the PS2SP(1) page in the User Commands section. mwah, go convert some netlists 🦋💖🎀