(Cc: [email protected]) I've been recently working on my own schematic editor, pschem, which is based on a slightly different circuit design paradigm than gEDA. In particular, it is built around a design database that abstracts an API for accessing and manipulating the circuit description. The program is implemented in Python, to make it as easy to extend as possible and uses Qt4 for GUI and rendering (the database implementation that is pure Python code for portability and licensing reasons).
I've been originally targeting this tool for a full custom ASIC design and a transistor level simulation, hence features like database, design partitioning conventions, hierarchy, scriptability etc. However, it is still way too early to tie this program to any specific flow (in fact, the tool is not yet capable of any real design work). The source code is available in a Google Code SVN repository (see the address below). The license is GPL3, except for the database which is LGPL3. I'd be happy if you could give me some comments or suggestions, although if they are not gEDA specific it's probably better to discuss it out of this mailing list (either mail me directly or go to the pschem mailing list). Pschem homepage address: http://code.google.com/p/pschem/ I don't have much time to work on the program right now (or at least less than I thought I would have when I started the project) so you'll see that most features are left unimplemented or half baked. If anyone is interested in joining the project that would be great. If not, feel free to reuse any part of the design you feel like. Pschem has some rudimentary support for reading gschem schematics and symbols. Try typing these commands into the console: >>> from Database.Reader import * >>> importer = GedaReader(database) >>> importer.importLibraryList( >>> [['symbolLib1', 'pathToSymbolDirectory1], >>> ['symbolLib2', 'pathToSymbolDirectory2]], >>> [['schematicLib1', 'pathToSchematicDirectory1], >>> ['schematicLib2', 'pathToSchematicDirectory2]]) Cheers, Andrzej _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
