Qucsator(1)

📦 version 25.1.2, in nixos 26.05, nixpkgs unstable, opensuse-leap 16.0

👑 Qucsator(1) — the User Commands manual page, but make it make sense 💅

okay so bestie, buckle up — this is the manual page for Qucsator, straight out of the User Commands section of your friendly neighborhood man pages. it's giving "backend simulator energy" and honestly? iconic.

✨ NAME ✨

Qucsator — an integrated electronic circuit simulator. that's the whole vibe fr fr 💖

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

qucsator [OPTION] ...

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so. Qucs is an integrated circuit simulator, which basically means you can set up a circuit with a graphical user interface (GUI) and then simulate how it behaves — the large-signal, small-signal and noise behaviour of the circuit. after that simulation finishes, you get to look at the results on a presentation page or window. slay. 💅

the software aims to support all kinds of circuit simulation types, like DC, AC, S-parameter, harmonic balance analysis, noise analysis, etc. not me being versatile 😭 ✨

and now the main character herself: Qucsator, the simulation backend, is a command line circuit simulator. it takes a network list in a certain format as input and outputs a Qucs dataset. she's been programmed for usage in the Qucs project, but like... she may also be used by other applications. generous queen 🫶

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • -h, --help — display this help and exit. your lil "what does anything do" lifeline 💖
  • -v, --version — display version information and exit. vibe check the version ✨
  • -i FILENAME — use file as input netlist (default is stdin, no cap)
  • -o FILENAME — use file as output dataset (default is stdout, periodt)
  • -b, --bar — enable textual progress bar 🔥 watching it fill up is lowkey therapeutic
  • -g, --gui — special progress bar used by gui. she's got a dedicated audience 👑
  • -c, --check — check the input netlist and exit. a lil pre-flight inspection, we love a cautious icon 🦋

🌈 AVAILABILITY 🌈

the latest version of Qucs can always be obtained from https://sf.net/p/qucs — go get her 💜

🙈 REPORTING BUGS 🙈

known bugs are documented within the BUGS file. report bugs to qucs-bugs@lists.sourceforge.net. please be nice, and please be specific 💀

Copyright © 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 Stefan Jahn <stefan@lkcc.org> Copyright © 2006 Helene Parruitte <parruit@enseirb.fr> Copyright © 2006 Bastien Roucaries <roucaries.bastien@gmail.com>

this is free software; see the source for copying conditions. there is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. and like, she means it — no warranty at all, bestie, do not come for her 😭

🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

the technical documentation for Qucsator is maintained as a LaTeX manual. the precompiled postscript (or pdf) file comes with every new release of the application. this documentation is also online available (as HTML) at <http://qucs.sourceforge.net/>. iykyk 📚

💜 AUTHORS 💜

written by Michael Margraf <michael.margraf@alumni.tu-berlin.de>, Vincent Habchi, F5RCS <10.50@free.fr>, Helene Parruitte <parruit@enseirb.fr>, Bastien Roucaries <roucaries.bastien@gmail.com> and Stefan Jahn <stefan@lkcc.org>. legends, all of them 🌟

💖 and that's the page! footer tea: this one's from Debian/GNU Linux, dated September 2004, and she's Qucsator(1) all day. mwah 🎀 ✨ 🦋
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