[Gnucap-devel] Possible contribution

[Orestes Mas]

Dear Mr. Davis,

We're a group of researchers with the Politechnic University of 
Catalonia, in Barcelona (Spain).

Some years ago, our group developed a piece of software, called ARIADNA, 
intended to compute the transfer function of any (linear or linearized) 
circuit in a semi-symbolic manner. Basically, the algorithm works by 
finding the frequency response of the circuit in a set of (complex) 
frequencies equally spaced over the unit circle in the complex plane, 
and then solving a set of linear equations to find the coefficients of 
the transfer function's numerator and denominator.

This software, originally written in FORTRAN, was later rewritten in 
C++, so we think it would be relatively easy to merge the code with the 
gnucap one, adding to it the ability to compute network functions.

So how do you consider it? We're relatively new to the GNU/Linux world 
(and to the UNIX world too), and we don't master programming in this 
environment, nor the gnucap internals, but being our software mainly a 
calculation routine, and with major mathematical algorithms already 
implemented in gnucap, we think this wouldn't be a very huge task if 
we've your assistance.

Regards,

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