simulation step error

Bug #1853491 reported by daddyzaur
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
KiCad
Fix Released
Unknown

Bug Description

KiCAD 5.1.4
Changing the simulation step will randomly trash a working simulation with a "Timestep too small;" error message

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Seth Hillbrand (sethh) wrote :

Please add your _full_ KiCad version information to all bug reports.

This is from Help->About KiCad->Copy Version information.

Please do not link to external sites in bug reports. All information needs to be contained in the report itself.

Changed in kicad:
status: New → Incomplete
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daddyzaur (daddyzaur) wrote :

Application: KiCad
Version: 5.1.4, release build
Libraries:
    wxWidgets 3.0.4
    libcurl/7.67.0 OpenSSL/1.1.1d zlib/1.2.11 libidn2/2.2.0 libpsl/0.21.0 (+libidn2/2.2.0) libssh2/1.9.0 nghttp2/1.39.2
Platform: Linux 5.3.11-1-MANJARO x86_64, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK
Build Info:
    wxWidgets: 3.0.4 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8) GTK+ 3.24
    Boost: 1.71.0
    OpenCASCADE Technology: 7.4.0
    Curl: 7.66.0
    Compiler: GCC 9.2.0 with C++ ABI 1013

Build settings:
    USE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT=OFF
    USE_WX_OVERLAY=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_PYTHON3=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON_PHOENIX=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=ON
    BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
    KICAD_USE_OCE=OFF
    KICAD_USE_OCC=ON
    KICAD_SPICE=ON

tags: added: eeschema ngspice
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daddyzaur (daddyzaur) wrote :

I was told a KiCAD project archive is not really fully contained, ready to run on any other machine. One must add all kind of extra resources. I tried to add some library files I created and used for this example. I hope it is a complete example and can be executed on other systems. I suspect some library files must be placed in the KiCAD folder somewhere. See attached project.

description: updated
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daddyzaur (daddyzaur) wrote :

How to reproduce: Open and run attached project. The simulation completes without errors.
Now change ".tran 50u 4m" to ".tran 39u 4m". The simulation will crash.
There is a very difficult "tuning" of the simulation step that will run the simulation without crashing. It is highly abnormal, it seems to be mostly random. It is not successful for fine or coarse steps, it is truly random success.

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KiCad Janitor (kicad-janitor) wrote :

KiCad bug tracker has moved to Gitlab. This report is now available here: https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/2603

Changed in kicad:
status: Incomplete → Expired
Changed in kicad:
importance: Undecided → Unknown
status: Expired → Fix Released
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