<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">To: Steve Peters<div>From: Edward Wright</div><div><br><div><div>On Sep 26, 2013, at 5:04 PM, Steve Peters wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi...<div><br></div><div>I would like to connect my Mathematica models to SPICE on my Mac... does anyone have experience doing this? or on any other platform?</div><div><br></div><div>thanks for any wisdom!</div></div></blockquote><br></div><div>NAIF received a request in 2011 for information concerning a </div><div>CSPICE-Mathematica interface. I do not know the outcome of</div><div>the project.</div><div><br></div><div>I use Mathematica at a novice level and have considered </div><div>creating a simple proof of concept interface.</div><div><br></div><div>Issues to understand with regards to such an interface:</div><div><br></div><div><div>1. Which CSPICE functions do you want to access from Mathematica? Many<br></div><div>CSPICE routines perform functions native to Mathematica - the<br></div><div>Mathematica version being much, much more powerful. Would the<br></div><div>interface provide only access to SPICE kernels or a complete mirror to<br></div><div>CSPICE functionality?<br></div><br><div>2. Amount of documentation. Mathematic grammar and syntax differs from<br></div><div>other computing environments (extremely in some cases). Writing<br></div><div>complete documentation will require a lot of time.<br></div><br><div>3. Design. How will the interface respond to SPICE errors and handle<br></div><div>memory allocation/deallocation.</div></div><br><div>
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