On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 8:59 PM, al davis <ad...@freeelectron.net> wrote: >> >> However we will also explore the possibility of publishing >> >> the files for one of the Open ECAD packages such as gEDA. >> >> How would the conversion be performed? > > That's obvious. They are waiting for us to provide a conversion > utility. > > Let me ask for help again. .. Gnucap has a conversion facility > based on Verilog syntax. If someone writes a plugin for geda > format (which I have already asked for), and someone else writes > one for Altium format, we have that translator.
I tuned into this thread late (i.e. just now). I used Altium once for a small board design, and played with it off and on after that. It has a scripting language. In theory, one could write a script to enumerate all of the objects on a schematic and produce a gschem compatible output file. In theory, one could write a script to enumerate all of the objects on a layout and produce a PCB compatible output file. In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. I'm somewhat confused by the twist things took here -- how does this tie into gnucap? Are you requesting a plugin that would produce a gschem schematic, given a gnucap internal representation? That seems like a reasonable request... I'd like to take a shot at it, as it dovetails into my own interest. (Having said that, I should also say that I'd like to have the time and focus to be able to take a shot at this... we'll see how well that works out.) Are you also suggesting a plugin that would parse an Altium schematic and map it into the internal gnucap representation? I think that's more problematic, for the file format compatibility reasons others mentioned later in this thread. However, an Altium script to translate an Altium schematic into a verilog netlist (and perhaps back again) does seem like a pretty useful utility. Perhaps Altium already has one of these. Or am I missing something here? --wpd _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user