On Apr 6, 2011, at 8:26 AM, Dave McGuire wrote:

> On 4/6/11 3:01 AM, Stephan Boettcher wrote:
>>> Specifically, the suite misses a way for fast turnaround of schematic
>>> modification, simulation and display.
>> 
>>   make
> 
>  Exactly.

Especially for simulation, where you very often aren't just running the 
simulator itself.

You may need to process netlists with spicepp.pl or some other script, to fix 
SPICE dialect dependencies or other problems.

You may need to generate stimulus files or command files.

You may need to update subcircuit libraries before simulating.

You may need to postprocess the simulation data to extract the information you 
seek.

The simulation may be part of some larger process. For example the final 
product may be a report containing plots or other data generated from 
simulations.

This is one place where gEDA's modular toolkit approach really shines. It saves 
me an enormous amount of time relative to the more integrated tools I once 
used. One really nice thing about makefiles is that while I often forget how to 
make some data product, the makefile doesn't.

John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
http://www.noqsi.com/
j...@noqsi.com




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