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From: al davis <ad252 AT freeelectron DOT net>
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] gnetlist spice-sdb subcircuit parameters
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 17:10:49 -0500
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On Tuesday 28 January 2014, Vladimir Zhbanov wrote:
> Currently, spice-sdb doesn't permit adding parameters to
> subcircuit components with the refdes X?. 

When spice-sdb was written, neither gnucap nor ngspice supported 
subcircuit parameters.  Now they both do.

> You can use the workaround proposed by Tom Russo.

That's not a "workaround".  It is the way it was designed to 
work.

It would be nice to support general parameter passing, but doing 
so would be a major rewrite.

The Verilog netlister doesn't support parameters either.  As I 
recall, back when it was originally written the digital only 
part of Verilog didn't support parameters in this way, but 
Verilog-AMS simulators (and gnucap) do.