On Apr 24, 2010, at 7:16 PM, Madhusudan Singh wrote: > Failure to correspond to your prejudices is not imperfection. > > Needing an extra 20 minutes after wiring the net, to populate spice > models for each gschem schematic (instead of having a set of default > libraries that do that for common circuit elements) for each circuit,
I really don't think you understand how the process works. Can you post a schematic? All you should be doing is attaching model-name= and perhaps file= (although I prefer to include a library once) to active components. Not so hard. What you consider "common circuit elements" are undoubtedly different from what I commonly use. That's how it goes. You have to build your own library, just like I had to when I was using Pspice back in the '90s. > compared to spending 0 extra minutes on something like LTSpice or > PSpice is not prejudice. It is 20 minutes of wasted time. Of course, I > have a decided prejudice against wasted time of that sort. So, very > prejudicially, I view it as an imperfection. The real time wasters aren't the setup, but the the repeated manual operations of GUI tools. > >> Since multiple circuit > >> iterations usually occur during the simulation period of the design >> (long before it is laid out for a PCB), any extra time wasted in > any >> one of these steps has a multiplier effect on the overall time > spent. >> Professionally, that is unacceptable, regardless of my personal >> inclinations, or ideologies. > > Again, this doesn't happen when you have your flow set up in an > efficient way, and gEDA is the very best EDA tool I've ever used at > avoiding this problem. But you seem to *expect* low productivity, > and you insist on using gEDA in a low productivity way. You > complain of ideology, but your approach seems extremely ideological > to me. > > You do have an interesting definition of productivity then. But no > matter. Given that I've designed 6000 transistor VLSI chips and 1000 component circuit boards with gschem, I think I understand its productivity. You have to use the power of the toolkit, not struggle against it. John Doty Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd. http://www.noqsi.com/ j...@noqsi.com _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user