On Monday 01 December 2008, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > Anyway, I'd prefer the unix mode: Separate tools for separate > tasks.
This is the unix mode. Separate tools for separate tasks. It is common in commercial tools to do schematic to layout in two hops. The first is schematic to netlist. The second is netlist to layout. All I'm suggesting is using a netlist format, and augmenting it with info relevant to schematic and layout, while keeping it strictly as a netlist format, so you can do a round trip. On Monday 01 December 2008, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > But the devils lurk in the details. Abstracting layout and schematic info so it fits within the context and spirit of a netlist format. Some commercial tools already use formats that are essentially netlist formats, augmented in some way but still fundamentally netlist format. Our status now is that only a few paths really work. Probably the path that works best is gschem to pcb, but there is no back path. Some other paths work one way if you accept that you may need to hack things a little. _______________________________________________ geda-dev mailing list geda-dev@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-dev
