John. As a ground rule I think you should let Al speak for himself. Thus you are free to claim discomfort when others put their interpretations of your ideas as quotes from you.
If you want you can say.... "I think Al wants "the structural subset" of verilog to be the data base." Showing you are trying to understand what Al is saying as upposed to some ability that "Ah" (southern enounciation that Ah preffer) lack of reading Al's mind. I struggle to read my own and jumping from mine to reading my wifes is frought with danger so that jumping further and into the mind of another engineer/scientist is unimagenably small. Its probably easier to attach one of DJ's 0105 capacitors to his soldering challenge board by aht leeeast couple of orders of magnitude. Steve Meier ps additional comment follow John Doty wrote: > On Dec 7, 2007, at 12:40 PM, Steve Meier wrote: > >>> >> No the database is built into the strucure of the library. verilog, >> vhdl >> and spice are just reflections of that internal database. >> > > That's your vision. But Al wants "the structural subset" of Verilog > to be the database. > > >>> >> Is a schematic which is referenced via a source= attribute embedded? >> > > That's not our terminology. "Embedded" means present as a complete > object in the schematic file. > > fair enough is associated a better word? >> That is what I ment. Similarily to have an attribute which reads vhdl= >> or verilog= or spice= and then pulling the code or a reference to the >> code and includding that into the final netlist embedded or just >> refferenced... >> > > We have file= for SPICE already. But it would make more sense to have > a SPICE-specific attribute. Also, pinseq= is confusing. > > the specification of attributes is always fair game so i think you are agreeing that we should have specific source= for each supported language. I am almost (painfully close) able to use scripts to read and write schematics and symbols so being able to translate from an older version to a newer should be streight forward and thus allow migration of source= as a spice specific attribute to SpiceSource= and thus encouraging the VHDLSource= or what ever maybe even including additional info such as which "standard" of spice. Again the power of a scripting language. Steve Meier _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

