CircuitSim90 - Files from the November 1990 Circuit Simulation
		     and Modeling Workshop at MCNC.

This directory contains a variety of benchmark circuits for analog circuit
simulator evaluation. Input files exist for SPICE2G.6, SPICE3, HSPICE and
MCNC's CAzM. In addition, timing information based upon studies at MCNC
are included, as well as Framemaker documents summarizing test results.

The file name suffixes have special significance as outlined below. The
Sigview files refer to MCNC's X11-based viewing tool Sigview which is
public domain and available in pub/sigview.

Details on how to obtain these circuits are available below. For technical
details concerning these benchmark circuits, please contact Bill
Richards either by e-mail (richards@mcnc.org) or telephone (919)248-1452.

Users of this benchmark set and the coordinators have expressed an
interest in making the results of various simulation programs available.
Anyone who would like to post results of their program's success with
these files should contact richards@mcnc.org or benchmarks@mcnc.org.

NOTE: Please see the file "CircuitSim90.FAQ".


		    BENCHMARK DIRECTORIES
		    --------- -----------

	DOC/		Framemaker documents.

	BJT/		Small BJT circuits.

	MOS2/		Small MOSFET circuits LEVEL 2 Model.

	MOS3/		Small MOSFET circuits LEVEL 3 Model.

	MOS2_LARGE/	Large MOSFET CIRCUITS. (CAzM & HSPICE)

	MOS2_LARGE_SP/	Large MOSFET CIRCUITS. (SPICE3 and SPICE2G6)

**	Several of these circuits were taken from the Sandia Benchmark Set.

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	HSPICE files:	

		foo.sp			Input file.
		foo.hout		Output file.
		foo.htime		Simulation time.  (SUN4/280)
		foo_hsp			Sigview plotfile. 

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	CAzM files:

		foo.cmd foo.fa 		Input files.
		foo.ctime		Simulation time.  (DS3100)
		foo_cz			Sigview plotfile. (direct model)
		foo_cz2			Sigview plotfile. (default CAzM tables)

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	SPICE3 files:

		foo.sp  		Input file.
		foo.sout		Output file. 
		foo.stime		Simulation time.  (DS3100)
		foo_sp3			Sigview plotfile.

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	SPICE2G6 files:

		foo.sp  		Input file.
		foo.s2out		Output file. 
		foo.s2time		Simulation time.  (DS3100)
		foo_2g6			Sigview plotfile. 

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	Gary Nifong
	MCNC


The data directories were put in tar format and compressed for
data transfer.

	bjt.tar.Z
	mos2.tar.Z
	mos3.tar.Z
	mos2_large.Z
	mos2_large_sp.Z

Due to the large size of this benchmark set, there is no single
tar file which includes all of the files, and there are no non-
compressed tar files (contact the benchmark coordinator at
benchmarks@cbl.ncsu.edu if this presents an unreasonable problem).

Ftp users who have the "tar" and "uncompress" commands on their computers
can get each of the above files individually:

The command sequence to establish a connection to the host machine is:

	ftp mcnc.mcnc.org
	anonymous 	(in response to the "Name" prompt)
	(your id) 	(in response to the "password" prompt)

You can then get the files by:

	cd pub/benchmark/Benchmark_dirs/CircuitSim90
	binary
	get bjt.tar.Z
	get doc.tar.Z
	get mos2.tar.Z
	get mos3.tar.Z
	get mos2_large.tar.Z
	get mos2_large_sp.tar.Z
	bye

on your local machine, uncompress the files with the commands

	uncompress bjt.tar.Z
	uncompress doc.tar.Z
	uncompress mos2.tar.Z
	uncompress mos3.tar.Z
	uncompress mos2_large.tar.Z
	uncompress mos2_large_sp.tar.Z

un-tar the files with the commands

	tar xvf bjt.tar
	tar xvf doc.tar
	tar xvf mos2.tar
	tar xvf mos2_large.tar
	tar xvf mos2_large_sp.tar
	tar xvf mos3.tar


Users who do not have both the "tar" and "uncompress" commands on their
systems will have to get all of the files explicitly:

	cd pub/benchmark/Benchmark_dirs/CircuitSim90
	binary
	cd bjt
	mget *
	cd ../doc
	mget *
	cd ../mos2
	mget *
	cd ../mos2_large
	mget *
	cd ../mos2_large_sp
	mget *
	cd ../mos3
	mget *
	bye