Re: [Dorset] Meaning of ‘DT File’ in Schematic/PCB/Simulation Context.

2020-02-23 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Patrick, > On second thoughts, I wonder if they could be talking about generating > a "device tree". Which sounds plausible, thanks. Grant Likely was heavily involved in Device Tree's addition to Linux on ARM and it's a declarative description of common hardware on embedded systems so it

Re: [Dorset] Meaning of ‘DT File’ in Schematic/PCB/Simulation Context.

2020-02-23 Thread Patrick Wigmore
On Sun, 23 Feb 2020 11:38:04 +, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > A test plan that can be executed? That was my first thought, but I'm not aware of any kind of testing that might use the abbreviation "DT". On second thoughts, I wonder if they could be talking about generating a "device tree". At

Re: [Dorset] Meaning of ‘DT File’ in Schematic/PCB/Simulation Context.

2020-02-23 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Terry, > I'm not skilled in the art of PCB design, but my partially informed guess > would be 'Drilling Template' layer. Thanks for the informed guess. :-) I think the Gerber file can contain information about a drilling layer, or if not some other CNC-related format. And ‘drilling

Re: [Dorset] Meaning of ‘DT File’ in Schematic/PCB/Simulation Context.

2020-02-23 Thread Terry Coles
On Sunday, 23 February 2020 11:14:43 GMT Terry Coles wrote: > I'm not skilled in the art of PCB design, but my partially informed guess > would be 'Drilling Template' layer. On re-reading the original discussion, I see that the reference is to a DT file, rather than a DT Layer. In the context

Re: [Dorset] Meaning of ‘DT File’ in Schematic/PCB/Simulation Context.

2020-02-23 Thread Terry Coles
On Sunday, 23 February 2020 10:49:42 GMT Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Anyway, the point of this email is one of the Q about fifty minutes > referred to what sounded like a ‘DT layer’ and I don't know what that > is. I'm not skilled in the art of PCB design, but my partially informed guess would be

[Dorset] Meaning of ‘DT File’ in Schematic/PCB/Simulation Context.

2020-02-23 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi, I recently watched ‘Hardware Design for Linux Engineers’, 52 minutes, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziHhcBoRjQk. It was okay, more interesting towards the end where the programmer talked about the issues he'd had with his hardware design, like getting oscillations from his transparent