On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 22:07 -0500, al davis wrote: > To do it right, it is a very difficult project. Several others > have tried and failed. What is needed is a framework that can > be expanded as the system grows. If you design it around the > tools we have now, it will fail. We need it designed around > the "vapor" tools we don't have yet, and what is in the works > and not released yet.
Done right, it will work with any processes and tools, vapor or not. I hope your warnings of failure designing around current tools is just meaning to say that the student will have to fill in missing gaps which "should" be there, rather than constraining themselves to what we can do at present. (E.g. we had to implement IPC support in PCB before xgsch2pcb could be made to work the way we wanted it to). > It's not just schematic and board layout! We have simulation, > both analog and digital. On the fringes, there are people > working on synthesis, electromagnetic simulation of boards, > static timing analysis. Another step away there are a bunch of > tools that are not really gEDA but are available now as > free/open-source. > > A good project manager will accomodate all this. I think it > means you need to start from scratch. I didn't say otherwise, just that some code for a specific workflow process could potentially be re-used. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) _______________________________________________ geda-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-dev
