LINSMITH(1)

NAME
linsmith - Smith charting program, designed for educational use.

SYNOPSIS
linsmith [-d opts]

DESCRIPTION
This manual page briefly documents linsmith. It was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. A more complete manual is included (in PDF form) with the installation.

linSmith is a Smith Charting program, mainly designed for educational use. As such, there is an emphasis on capabilities that improve the 'showing the effect of'-style of operation.

It's main features are:
 * Definition of multiple load impedances (at different frequencies)
 * Addition of discrete (L, C, parallel and series LC, and transformer) and line components (open and closed stubs, line segments)
 * Connection in series and parallel
 * Easy experimentation with values using scrollbars
 * A 'virtual' component switches from impedance to admittance to help explaining (or understanding) parallel components
 * The chart works in real impedances (not normalized ones)
 * Direct view of the result on the screen
 * Ability to generate publication quality Postscript output
 * A 'log' file with textual results at each intermediate step
 * Load and circuit configuration is stored separately, permitting several solutions without re-defining the other

OPTIONS
This program is mainly designed for graphical use, and therefore does not have many options. A summary of options is included below.

-h, -?
    Show summary of options.

-d items
    Enables debugging. Possible debugging items:
    l - loads
    e - elements
    g - graphics
    p - printing
    m - math
    o - logging

AUTHOR
linsmith was written by John Coppens.

This manual page was written by Margarita Manterola <debian@marga.com.ar>, for the Debian project, and is licensed under the GNU General Public License.