Brian: How about a basic pin swap feature for any arbitrary pair of pins? Like v2.8 had. FPGA pin swaps are nice and all, but I need pin swap more for passive parts (such as connectors). Maybe the "dumb pin swap" code could be your first pass at the more sophisticated "smart pin swap" code needed for FPGAs?
Best regards, Ivan Baggett Bagotronix Inc. website: www.bagotronix.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Guralnick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Protel EDA Discussion List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2004 8:02 AM Subject: Re: SOLVED! Re: [PEDA] Problem updating designators / pin swapping > I was thinking about putting support for auto-pin-swapping in P99se via > a basic client script. I know I can get it to work with Altera's Quartus & > it's IC-pinout export&import function. Anyone else interested? > > ________ > Brian G. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ian Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Protel EDA Discussion List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2004 12:08 AM > Subject: Re: SOLVED! Re: [PEDA] Problem updating designators / pin swapping > > > > On 03:18 PM 24/11/2004, Matt Polak said: > >>At 04:19 PM 11/23/2004, you wrote: > >> > >>> My question would be simply: What is the recommended procedure > >>> for updating the PCB's components and netlist when gate-swapping between > >>> parts in the schematics set under DXP? Are there any hints or gotcha's > >>> to watch out for? > >> > >> Never mind - turns out the footprint libraries somehow got > >> unloaded in the working process! Doh! Everything is happy now. > >> > >>> By the by, DXP2004 has been touting pin and gate-swapping as > >>> part of the new package. Has anyone used it yet who can comment on it > >>> being a useful (and working) feature? > >> > >> Thanks for your comments on this one, Ian! I definitely wish > >> there were a little easier way to just say "Here, ALL of *these* FPGA > >> pins are GPIO and can be swapped on the fly. Let me connect the currently > >> routing net trace to any one of THESE pins." so routing would be easier, > >> or similar. I guess I won't be thinking of switching to DXP2004 any time > >> soon - we just figured out most of the insanity with the 99SE to DXP > >> transition in the past few months! > > > > If you are using DXP then it is pretty much a no-brainer to switch to > > P2004 (with one small exception that I know of, and even then I would go > > back to DXP only when I needed to). There are way too many improvements > > in P2004, and the forthcoming SP2, to ignore. All registered DXP owners > > should have received P2004 as a free upgrade. > > > > If you want pin swapping on FPGAs without doing an underlying FPGA project > > in P2004 (or Nexar), I suspect this would not be too hard to arrange - > > just do a dummy FPGA project which sets out the appropriate swap groups > > and it should work OK - as long as you are using one of the supported > > FPGAs. The PCB changes can then be pushed back to the Sch, if you are > > prepared to use auto-generated FPGA sheet that is created when linking an > > PrjFPGA to a PrjPCB. > > > > So, there may be some helpful work-arounds that could be done to help with > > pin swapping on FPGAs even if your FPGA is not being designed in the > > P2004/Nexar environment - haven't thought about it in detail. Others on > > the DXP forum may have some ideas about this. > > > > (The only exception, I can think of to go back to DXP, is that P2004 no > > longer includes support for CUPL for simple PLDs.) > > > > Ian > > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________ > > You are subscribed to the PEDA discussion forum > > > > To Post messages: > > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Unsubscribe and Other Options: > > http://techservinc.com/mailman/listinfo/peda_techservinc.com > > > > Browse or Search Old Archives (2001-2004): > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > > > > Browse or Search Current Archives (2004-Current): > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________ > You are subscribed to the PEDA discussion forum > > To Post messages: > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Unsubscribe and Other Options: > http://techservinc.com/mailman/listinfo/peda_techservinc.com > > Browse or Search Old Archives (2001-2004): > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > > Browse or Search Current Archives (2004-Current): > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > ____________________________________________________________ You are subscribed to the PEDA discussion forum To Post messages: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe and Other Options: http://techservinc.com/mailman/listinfo/peda_techservinc.com Browse or Search Old Archives (2001-2004): http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] Browse or Search Current Archives (2004-Current): http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
