New features:
1. BSIM1, BSIM2 models -- DC only.
2. New elements:
trans-capacitor
voltage controlled capacitor
voltage controlled conductance
voltage controlled resistor
3. Optional new syntax, with type first so component labels can start
with any letter, and the choice of components is no longer limited by
the 26 letters. This was necessary for a clean syntax
for #2.
4. Some new parameters on existing devices, also a side
effect of the BSIM work.
5. The manual in HTML form. The manual source is still in LaTeX,
which can be used to generate HTML, PDF, Postscript, or many other
formats.
Bug fixes:
1. An error causing truncation error to be underestimated has been fixed.
Other improvements:
1. MOSFET model evaluation is a little faster, due to use of one of
the new elements to replace several old ones. I have seen 40%, but
20% is more likely. The improvement is most evident on busy circuits,
where the ACS speed enhancements based on latency exploitation
contribute more overhead than their value, that is .. the type of
circuit that has run faster in Spice than ACS.
2. More documentation on internals.
Changes that I think are improvements, but some may disagree:
1. Truncation error based step control is disabled when Euler's method
is selected. The justification for this is that the reason for
selecting Euler's method is to avoid the artifacts of high order
methods on "stiff" poles. Without this change, a "stiff" pole would
cause an unreasonably small step size. This did not appear to be much
of a problem in the old release because the use of an incorrect
formula for estimating truncation error. A "stiff" pole is one that
has a response so fast it can be thought of as instantaneous.
2. The "help" command, with its 4 year old help file, has been
removed. The concept is really obsolete. With the HTML form of the
manual, a full online manual is a better replacement.
changes between 5.3.2 -> 5.3.4:
fetchmail-5.3.4 (Wed Mar 22 15:55:51 EST 2000), 18819 lines:
* Added FAQ item on performance under load.
* Fix Debian bug #60202 (segfaults when given command line arguments).
This only applied to `antispam', as it turned out.
* Work around InterChange's bug with attachments as suggested by
paul666@mailandnews.com.
* Enable checks on multiple folders.
fetchmail-5.3.3 (Mon Mar 13 16:34:29 EST 2000), 18763 lines:
* Fixed reporting of listener timeouts.
* Configure now supports SOCKS5, thanks to Alan Schmitt.
* Fix a minor bug in preauthenticated IMAP, thanks to Urban Boquist
<boquist@crt.se>.
* Try to support suffix matching in aka lists.
Version 5.00 is the current release. Version 5.00 shares no code with
versions 1.x through 4.x. The major motivation for this release is to
simplify chess code making it more pedantically accessible, use modern
data structures, make it easy to modify by less skilled programmers,
and increase understandability to non-programmer, skilled chess
experts.
Notable changes since the last pkg are (from the snapshot announcement):
Parameters are complete.
What this means is that I finally got around to supporting defparam,
and while I was at it I rewrote the entire parameter handling and added
the parameter support included in 1364-2000.
I have rewritten major portions of the VVM backend. The vvm_nexus class
has been introduced to the fray, and all the device implementations in
the VVM library now use the nexus to drive and receive values. An advantage
of this scheme is that the t-vvm backend code (in ivl proper) is simpler,
and so is the generated C++ code.
I also removed most of the template classes. This proved to be a huge
compile-time benefit (though compiling twice as fast really only matters
for large programs) and it doesn't seem likely to hurt run-time performance.
A few remain, either because they seemed harmless (the N-wide logic gates)
or I couldn't yet figure out a good way to replace them (vvm_bitset_t).
A side benefit of this is that the vvm library may now be a modeling
library that ordinary humans can use to write their models in C++. This
may provide the unexpected benefit of heading me towards incremental
compilation of designs. So who was it who was beating me over the head
asking for that?-)
I also fixed a few minor problems with the preprocessor. Those of you
who reported problems with `includes and `defines should check this out.
/ cowsay is a configurable talking cow, \
| written in Perl. It operates much as |
| the figlet program does, and it written |
\ in the same spirit of silliness. /
-----------------------------------------
\ ^__^
\ (oo)\_______
(__)\ )\/\
||----w |
|| ||
setting M4, and by adding M4 and YACC to CONFIGURE_ENV (YACC is already set,
for NetBSD, in "sys.mk"). If it turns out that a package really needs "gm4"
for "m4", or "bison -y" for "yacc", the corresponding variable will have to
be set in the package's Makefile (and the explicit dependency added, too).
mksunbootcd came from distrib/utils/mksunbootcd. This package is provided
so it may be easily installed as we don't ship mksunbootcd executibles
The mksunbootcd program combines filesystem partitions for Sun Microsys-
tems, Inc. computers into an image suitable for writing to a compact
disc, that will allow the disc to be booted on the sun3, sun3x, sun4,
sun4c, sun4m and sun4u platforms. This hardware is supported by the
NetBSD sparc, sparc64 and sun3 ports. The architecture arguments above
must be the bootable filesystem images for the named architecture.
filesystem is typically an iso9660 filesystem, see mount_cd9660(8) for
details, but can be any type as long as the first 512 bytes of the image
are not used. This image is modified, and the additional partitions
added after this partition, in order. If any architecture image is miss-
ing, that partition is not used. If a disc with sun4 and sun4m support
only was to be created, a dummy image would need to be in place for
sun4c.
a ghostscript-x11 package containing a gsx11 binary compiled with ONLY
X11 drivers.
We can now install gs-based print filter software without installing the
xbase.tgz set.
1.3.1 -> 1.3.2 Sep 1996
1) Numeric but not integer indices caused core dump in new array scheme.
Fixed bug and fired test division.
2) Added ferror() checks on writes.
3) Added some static storage specs to array.c to keep non-ansi
compilers happy.
1.3 -> 1.3.1 Sep 1996
Release to new ftp site ftp://ftp.whidbey.net.
1) Workaround for overflow exception in strtod, sunos5.5 solaris.
2) []...] and [^]...] put ] in a class (or not in a class) without
having to use back-slash escape.
1.2.2 -> 1.3 Jul 1996
Extensive redesign of array data structures to support large arrays and
fast access to arrays created with split. Many of the ideas in the
new design were inspired by reading "The Design and Implementation of
Dynamic Hashing Sets and Tables in Icon" by William Griswold and
Gregg Townsend, SPE 23,351-367.
to coexist with the up and coming qt-2.0.2 package. This will allow
packages which still requrire qt-1.44 to work (ie are not compatible with
Qt-2). As such, this package should be considered a temporary one.
Once all packages which use qt-1.* have be updated to use qt-2.*, this package
may be depricated.
The modifications to this package from the qt-1.44 package are:
- header files are installed in ${PREFIX}/include/qt1
- manual pages have "_1" appended to the name (ie "man foo" becomes "man foo_1")
- the program "moc" is now named "moc1"
bug fixes and changes from 2.8.2. A few visible ones:
* update documentation to reflect move from sol.slcc.edu to lynx.isc.org
-PG
* add FTP_PASSIVE option to lynx.cfg, allowing installer to defer decision
of whether lynx uses passive ftp connection (adapted from patch by
Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.de>) -TD
* change configure script defaults for --enable-persistent-cookies and
--enable-alt-bindings to 'yes' -TD
[For persistent cookies, PERSISTENT_COOKIES:TRUE must be set in lynx.cfg.]
This package applies the latest moxienet patch to support `https' URI's,
utilizing openssl-0.9.4. (Closes PR pkg/7288.) Also, garbage collects
PASSIVE_FETCH--it's now a run time option, and installs all doc's and help
files, including sample lynx.cfg, into ${LOCALBASE}/share/lynx. (Active
config is still ${LOCALBASE}/etc/lynx.cfg.)
