Re: Gnucap and summer of code

I'm also forwarding it to the list.

On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 8:41 AM, [email protected]
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello Al Davis,
>
> My name is Savant Krishna. I am undergraduate student in Electrical
> Engineering currently in my sophomore year. I study at IIT Bombay in
> India.As far as my experience regarding circuit simulation software
> goes I've done simulations using ngspice for analog design lab. I have
> also done some programming in verilog for digital circuit simulations.
> As for programming skills, I have good knowledge of c++ and I've also
> done a course project in c++ using dynamic programming implementing
> the Bellman-ford algorithm and simulate the motion of micro-mouse
> through a maze to find shortest path.
>
> As a first step I've tried to install gnucap. It has installed fine if
> I tried from the packages (I use Ubuntu 10.10)
> But I wanted to install it from source.When installing the version
> 0.35, it didn't compile and there was error running 'make' which is
> pasted here : http://pastebin.com/zwKJXNMn . There seems to be a
> problem with the string class. I think it is because I have gcc-4.4
> and headers need to included.
> Nevertheless the latest development snapshot in the archive,
> 'gnucap-2009-11-10' installed fine from source. I observed that the up
> down arrows at gnucap> prompt to switch to previous
>
> I'm also going through your dissertation
> (http://www.gnucap.org/papers/al-davis-dissertation.pdf) and the paper
> on model compiler
> (http://www.gnucap.org/papers/gnucap-model-compiler.pdf).
>
> I'm interested in contributing towards the development of gnucap and
> would like to implement the language plugins for gnucap to interface
> to other EDA software (gschem/eeschema formats).
> I guess the starting point would be to look at the source of gnucap
> and see how it works and also look at the eeschema/gschem formats.
> Also, It's mentioned that Qucs plugin is in development/been
> developed. Where can I look at how that is being done?
>
>
> Thank you,
> --
> Savant Krishna | Sophomore | Electrical Engineering | IIT Bombay