Abstract
This chapter describes a general purpose steady-state analysis program known as GCAP2. It describes the methods of analysis and some of the programming techniques used, to illustrate the use of the program and to make various comments on the requirements a general analysis program should fulfill. A general purpose program may be considered as an implementation of a language that enables the user to state his or her analysis requirements to the computer and receive results in a readily understandable form. This language should be easy to learn; however, it should also enable the user to deal with a wide range of problems —these are conflicting requirements and some compromise should be made. There are also aspects of use of powerful programs against which the user should be warned, for example, a program may be used to optimize a circuit that is the wrong circuit, rather than the engineer having to choose or devise a more suitable circuit. With these thoughts in mind, it is the writer's view that a program which enables the user to build and experiment with a circuit can be of considerable use to the circuit designer.
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