I have added some job control functions to xschem to monitor simulation progress as well as keeping track of the running jobs and allowing to terminate or kill them. This is particularily useful for batch mode jobs that do not have a controlling terminal or GUI. See short video.

how did you do the swap code ?

@Daniel Arevalos select the Swap launcher and do a 'q' to view its attributes. The launcher has a

tclcommand

attribute:

tclcommand="
proc simswap {} {
  set x [xschem getprop instance INTERACTIVE spice_ignore]
  xschem setprop instance BATCH_MODE spice_ignore $x
  set x [expr { !$x}]
  xschem setprop instance INTERACTIVE spice_ignore $x
}
simswap
"

when the

tclcommand

is triggered (Ctrl-click on the launcher) it will toggle the

spice_ignore

attribute of both the

INTERACTIVE

and

BATCH_MODE

instances, setting one to 1 and the other to 0. This is just a helper to avoid changing the spice_ignore attributes by hand. A component with

spice_ignore=1

will be completely ignored by the netlister.