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Subject: Re: [geda-help] gschem value attribute for ngspice simulation of LED
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On Jul 7, 2013, at 4:22 AM, julia DOT jacobson AT arcor DOT de wrote:

> For simulating a simple circuit including a LED in ngspice, I am wondering which value attribute to assign to the LED in gschem.
> It its a 5mm (red) one and looks pretty much standard to me.

For most simulation purposes, just about any diode model will work. Which SPICE netlister are you using? For spice-sdb, see section 4.7.3 at http://www.brorson.com/gEDA/SPICE/x150.html for one way to set up your attributes. The value attribute doesn't affect simulation in this case.

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