Re: gEDA-user: Some gschem/ngspice problems

2006-10-18 Thread Ales Hvezda
[snip] > Also, the gEDA/SPICE tutorial mentions 'model' and 'type' attributes > which are not available on the standard attribute list (like value, > netname etc). Do I have to include them manually? > I would be happy to added them to the standard list, but what are the ones that are m

Re: gEDA-user: Buses in gEDA/gaf

2006-10-18 Thread Ales Hvezda
[snip] >> Now suppose I want to label my buses for the same purpose: as a >> documentation aid for others looking at my schematics. Of course I can >> just stick a text object next to it that isn't of name=value form, but >> it seems to me that an attribute would be more appropriate, even if no >>

Re: gEDA-user: QFN16_3_EP footprint

2006-10-18 Thread Dan McMahill
Matthias Wenzel wrote: Matthias Wenzel wrote: Thanks for the effort, but the pads overlap: http://mazzoo.de/d/QFN16_3_EP_b0rken.png :( geometries (metak & silk) are in the datasheet. OK, I fixed it myself. http://mazzoo.de/d/QFN16_3_EP.png now it _looks_ good. Please verify before using it!

Re: gEDA-user: Schottky diode?

2006-10-18 Thread al davis
On Tuesday 17 October 2006 15:59, John Coppens wrote: > I was (trying to) simulate a switching power supply, A warning ... ngspice has some problems with its step size control that sometimes gives wrong results, particularly on circuits like switch mode power supplies. The problem is shows wi

Re: gEDA-user: Some gschem/ngspice problems

2006-10-18 Thread al davis
On Tuesday 17 October 2006 11:51, John Coppens wrote: > 2) Another version of the circuit causes: > >   Found unknown component.  Refdes = L1 > >   L1 is an inductor, shown correctly on the schematic, and > included in the generated netlist as: > >   L1 vlin vlout 180u > >   which I suppose is corr

Re: gEDA-user: Buses in gEDA/gaf

2006-10-18 Thread DJ Delorie
> OK, let's review: buses on schematics are a documentation feature, i.e., > intended not for tools but for other engineers looking at the drawing, > right? Yes. > Now suppose I want to label my buses for the same purpose: as a > documentation aid for others looking at my schematics. Of course

Re: gEDA-user: Buses in gEDA/gaf

2006-10-18 Thread Michael Sokolov
DJ Delorie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A "bus" is purely decoration. Everything ignores it. All that > matters is the nets that connect to it and THEY must have net names, > as usual. Yes, each little connecting net has to be named. That's > what does the actual work. OK, thanks for the clar

Re: gEDA-user: Automatic repositioning to attributes

2006-10-18 Thread Antonio Augusto Todo Bom Neto
Em Seg, 2006-10-16 às 17:40 +0200, Carlos Nieves Ónega escreveu: Just curious, do you have any suggestion to improve this feature? why don't you like it? Regards, Carlos Tanks Carlos, Well, I just don´t like because we work with some norms about design. I.E.

Re: gEDA-user: Buses in gEDA/gaf

2006-10-18 Thread DJ Delorie
> 1. There doesn't seem to be any way to indicate how wide a bus is in >bits, i.e., how many nets should it turn into. Does gEDA not care? >How can it not care? How many nets is the netlister going to >generate for a bus? A "bus" is purely decoration. Everything ignores it. All th

gEDA-user: Buses in gEDA/gaf

2006-10-18 Thread Michael Sokolov
Hello again fellow gEDA users, As my OSDCU design is a microprocessor system of moderate complexity, I need to use buses on my schematics -- for my microprocessor's address and data buses and everything connected to them. I haven't been able to find any real documentation on buses in gEDA/gaf (al

Re: gEDA-user: QFN16_3_EP footprint

2006-10-18 Thread Matthias Wenzel
Matthias Wenzel wrote: > Thanks for the effort, but the pads overlap: > http://mazzoo.de/d/QFN16_3_EP_b0rken.png > > :( > > geometries (metak & silk) are in the datasheet. OK, I fixed it myself. http://mazzoo.de/d/QFN16_3_EP.png now it _looks_ good. Please verify before using it! I did it thro