John P. Doty wrote: > Bill Gatliff wrote: >> In the bigger picture, I'll note that the tutorials and FAQs I've seen >> for gEDA all focus on a pretty specific workflow, which is to turn a >> schematic into a circuit board layout. There are obviously a zillion >> different ways that the tools would be useful, and I would really >> appreciate it if someone would write a few of them down! >> > > I'm working on a gnetlist back end tutorial. I think that the > capabilities of gnetlist are underappreciated, and that specialized back > ends could be very useful. > >> I'm a Contributing Editor for Embedded Systems Design magazine. If >> anyone wants to help me co-author a few short articles on using gEDA for >> things like circuit board layout, schematic capture, simulations, and >> whatever else it's good for, I'd be more than happy to give you ample >> credit and to assist in whatever capacity I can to see to it that the >> documents get published. They should be good candidates for the Wiki, too! >> >> If we can get some word out, and commit to documenting some of the >> really cool ways people are solving problems with gEDA, then I think >> we'll all get along a _lot_ better. We'll focus our efforts on the >> parts of gEDA that are truly lacking (and even identify them!). And >> we'd call more attention to the project, too. >> >> >> <bluto> >> >> "Now who's with me?" >> >> </bluto> >> >> >> b.g.
I am. I've spent some time on testing and documenting the gnetlist-verilog scheme language backend to help use the Gnucap simulator with gschem schematics. The gnetlist-verilog back end outputs a subset of verilog-ams, which is fully hierarchical. I'd like to get that to some more workable state -- it already did some hierarchic netlisting -- but I have not done the unit tests for it or written it up. Bragging on something like that kind of gnetlist to gnucap integration could get more Linux_Fund contributions to help with PCB using the same things -- putting out a new version of the gnetlist-pcb netlist with circuit values for the trace capacitances and distances. John Griessen _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
