ChileCAD™ is a generalized schematic capture tool for electrical circuits written in Java™. It was developed to give users desktop access to high-performance electrical modeling and simulation (HPEMS) tools on the network, such as ChileSPICE™ and Xyce™. ChileCAD™ uses graphical schematic capture and is similar to other products on the market such as PSpice® that are only PC-based. ChileCAD™ was not developed to replace any of these products.

More specifically, ChileCAD™ is the schematic capture tool for creating a graphical, schematic image of a circuit that can then be generated into a netlist. Alternatively, the user can import a netlist and the system will generate a graphic representation of the circuit. In some cases, ChileCAD™ cannot generate a complete schematic, and the user will need to connect the unresolved trace lines. In either case, ChileCad™ will generate a netlist that can be executed locally using Xyce™ on the client PC or uploaded to a file server, maverick, where the netlist can be submitted to the network through HEIDI™ for execution using ChileSpice™.

Some of the salient features in ChileCAD™ include:

• The ability to open PSpice® 8.2 files and produce a graphic and netlist. The user may need to update the schematic in order to make the translation 100%.
• Access to a full set of functional models and the ability to import models and create your own model libraries. Models may be extracted from the model libraries in the Sandia Parts Unified Data Source (SPUDS) database, or as licensing permits, from PSpice® libraries.
• A symbol editor to allow users to create new symbols to be used on schematic diagrams.
• Equivalent features, functionality and robustness to other schematic capture tools (e.g., creation and management of sub-circuits typically used in a circuit design).

For more information, please contact Ron Sikorski.