Brian Yes, I am interested.
Would the script also support import of generic devices to library? As well as pin attributes for them from CSV, tab/space delimited or GDS file? Double bonus if you have the time. John > -----Original Message----- > From: Brian Guralnick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 24 November 2004 13:02 > To: Protel EDA Discussion List > 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]
