Re: Use of M as suffix for Mega

> So .. here's a question ...
>
> Gnucap has some extensions beyond Spice for behavioral modeling.
> These made sense when they were done, but are now hopelessly
> obsolete and non-standard.  The functionalty and more is
> available in Verilog-AMS.  When Verilog works, should I remove
> the extensions?  My feeling is "yes", unless they are there for
> compatibility with some commercial version of Spice, which is
> usually HSPICE.  The semiconductor industry thinks of HSPICE,
> not Berkeley 3f5, as the standard.

Well, I think that if your extensions are a superset of SPICE (and not
a change), then leave them in.  You never know how many users are
reliant upon your extensions until you remove them.  Then you'll have
crowds of angry users e-mailing you about their missing extensions.
OTOH, it doesn't hurt anything to leave them in.

As for gnucap's Verilog-AMS ability, I was wondering how you plan on
handling the ability to read/handle the new file format?  Can you mix
Verilog-AMS and SPICE together in the same file?  Or are Verilog-AMS
and SPICE files incompatible?

Stuart