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Friday, January 16, 2015
A Cadence-Style Library Browser for Use with LTspice
And, wouldn't it be nice if the devices in this browser were arranged like they are in a typical Cadence PDK?
How can this be done? Autohotkey of course. Autohotkey gives you the power to be and do anything you want. Shame on Linux for having no equivalent. At the end of the day, you want a classic PDK setup that you can use for the TSMC 0.18 um process. Umm, maybe the
So, what do you need?
You need a GUI that has panes for Category, Cells and Views. There can only be 2 views since this is LTspice - schematic and symbol. You double click the schematic or symbol, it opens for editing in the already open LTspice - coz that's what Windows does anyway (how?). You double-click on the cell-name, it sends the currently open LTspice schematic editor into Component mode and navigates in the new popup to find the component, select it and say Ok.
Easy? :)
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