Thursday, November 5, 2009

Install NGSPICE & MAGIC - VLSI Tools for Ubuntu OS.

         Installation of VLSI design tools such as "ngspice" and "magic" is fairely easy in Ubuntu Linux OS. The simple steps are given below. Please note that Ubuntu uses "debian" packages.

Steps :

1. Go to the below sites and download the packages.

MAGIC:
http://tuxmaniac.com/work/packages/magic/magic_7.5.129-1_i386.deb

NGSPICE:
http://nchc.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/ngspice/ngspice_17.0.0-1_i386.deb

XSPICE:
http://nchc.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/ngspice/xspice_17.0.0-1_i386.deb

Note : XSPICE is a dependent package for NGSPICE.

2. Install packages using following command.

MAGIC:
$ dpkg -i magic_7.5.129-1_i386.deb


NGSPICE:
$ dpkg -i xspice_17.0.0-1_i386.deb ngspice_17.0.0-1_i386.deb


Note: You can not install "xspice" & "ngspice" independently. You need to install both at a time.


Happy Designing....


Note : I took help from Mr. Prassana Kalyan, KarMic for this. Thanks to him.

3 comments:

  1. hi can u plz tell me how to install alliance cad tools in ubuntu .
    And i'm not abel to install ngspice and xspice from the packages u provided above on karmic koala :(

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  2. Just install both xspice and ngspice at once using command " sudo dpkg -i *.deb ".

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  3. Both packages are dependent on each other.

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