On Tuesday 08 July 2008, Paul Tan wrote: > On Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:07:26 -0400, al davis wrote: > > I prefer to interact with the simulator directly. Most > > people who interact through menus or only the schematic are > > light users. > > Most people, including me, who have worked with the > "Schematic Driven" technology that are employed by most > of the advance state-of-the-art EDA tools vendors, > might think differently.
No argument here .. Nobody types in big netlists. But most advanced users I know can read them and use them effectively. What I was referring to in "interacting through menus" is the kick boxes and menus of the type you see in the low end simulators. I would like to see how you do a distortion analysis like I did, without an explicit command to do it, using only kick boxes and menus. Spectre, and I assume also the other high end simulators, has a very significant scripting language. From what I remember at Bell Labs, they do write scripts. That's one of the reasons TCL was created. .. as a scripting language for EDA tools. In our case, the netlister doesn't work well enough to do that. We have a long way to go. I think it is the biggest block keeping people away. > I think "Schematic Driven" is the way to go. If you can make the gEDA/PCB/gnucap combination work well enough that 100% schematic driven gives you all the functionality of a command line, you have my complete support. If you can just make it do beginner tasks well, without holding them back, you have my complete support. _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user