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. <snip> > > I think "Schematic Driven" is the way to go.
Schematic driven simulation is practical for homeworks, but it doesn't scale. It the mid 1980's, I was working on a system where we typically printed the schematics to microfiche to save space. Of course, we had two full sets of B-size prints for the check-out floor. Each set had two five-foot long wheeled carts to hold all the hanging binders full of schematics. No way would "schematic level simulation" have been even remotely practical. That was the last CPU I worked on where a full set of schematics was even printed out -- it's just not practical any more. Note that was over 20 years ago. Of course, we're talking about SPICE here, and nobody would do a SPICE simulation that large, but I still believe the scalability issue applies. I realize most gEDA users are not doing systems of the scale I mentioned above. But it is all too common for posters on this list to dismiss scalability issues just because it doesn't apply to what they happen to be working on. -dave _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user