Hi, I think, this is not the main intention of KICAD, but as of the availability of spice samples, is there also a way to use KICAD for FPGA design?
Say, I would use a sub sheet to enter a group of logic to be placed into a FPGA (reduced set of symbols only) and a tool that translates the usual netlist into a VHDL file. A possible attempt may be supporting the 74XX series of IC's or some to most of them to be known in a translation tool based on the netlist. A barrier to the outer circuit (the pins of a FPGA) would be all these wires, contacting unsupported components, eg, they could not translated to be in a FPGA design, but in the outer area. Using the sub sheet would be a helper in separating FPGA related logic from the outer area. (I think I could not distinguish between signals on different sheets in a netlist, thus I don't see the pins that connects sheets) While this could be tried with the plain netlist, a netlist in XML format would be another option to enable various transformations. Is this possible? There are other tools available for this, but a first step entry with KICAD would be fine, as I work on Mac OS X and there are less EDA tools available (known by me). Thanks Lothar -- | Rapid Prototyping | XSLT Codegeneration | http://www.lollisoft.de Lothar Behrens Heinrich-Scheufelen-Platz 2 73252 Lenningen
