On Aug 9, 2009, at 9:56 AM, al davis wrote: > On Saturday 01 August 2009, Bob Paddock wrote: >> http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/08/01/2114210/Cheap-Cross-P >> latform-Electronic-Circuit-Simulation-Software?from=rss >> >> "Cheap, Cross-Platform Electronic Circuit Simulation >> Software? >> >> dv82 writes "I teach circuits and electronics at the >> undergraduate level, and have been using the free student >> demo version of OrCad for schematic capture and simulation >> because (a) it comes with the textbook and (b) it's powerful >> enough for the job. Unfortunately OrCad runs only under >> Windows, and students increasingly are switching to Mac (and >> some Linux netbooks). Wine and its variants will not run >> OrCad, and I don't wish to require students to purchase >> Windows and run with a VM. The only production-quality >> cross-platform CAD tool I have found so far is McCad, but its >> demo version is so limited in total allowed nets that it >> can't even run a basic opamp circuit with a realistic 741 >> opamp model. gEDA is friendly to everything BUT Windows, and >> is nowhere near as refined as OrCad. I would like students to >> be able to run the software on their laptops without a >> network connection, which eliminates more options. Any >> suggestions?"" > > I was out of town when this hit (which was probably fortunate). > > What are we going to do about it? > > If we want people to use our tools .. > > 1. They need to be the best. > > 2. We need to provide a migration path -- in and out. > > > Gnucap works fine, but there is a problem with the geda > interface. Does anyone want to help?
What's the problem you perceive? The author seems primarily concerned with the lack of a Windows binary. The other common complaint that comes from that direction is that gEDA is a toolkit, not an integrated tool (but I say Hurray!). > > > > _______________________________________________ > geda-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user > John Doty Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd. http://www.noqsi.com/ [email protected] _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
