gEDA-user: installation

2007-03-18 Thread Jason Elder
Hi, I'm having trouble with the installation, but I don't know if this should be posted hereI just downloaded the new version 20070221 of gEDA and I was wondering how I can install it as root. I can't find anywhere on the site where it limits the installation to just users, but when I try

Re: gEDA-user: Icarus Verilog with Xilinx simprims...

2007-03-18 Thread Günter Dannoritzer
Andy Peters wrote: Does iverilog support SDF backannotation? The SDF has the delay information. Here are some information about that and a link to a previous discussion: http://iverilog.wikia.com/wiki/Graffiti#SDF_support Cheers, Guenter ___

Re: gEDA-user: installation

2007-03-18 Thread Stuart Brorson
On Sun, 18 Mar 2007, Jason Elder wrote: Hi, I'm having trouble with the installation, but I don't know if this should be posted hereI just downloaded the new version 20070221 of gEDA and I was wondering how I can install it as root. Do not install as root. If you install as root, and you

Re: gEDA-user: Design Flow Roadmap starting point

2007-03-18 Thread C P Tarun
I am a beginner, and I have a lot of exposure to Eagle, so please keep these limitations/biases in mind. I would really like to see the following additions: 1. In gschem, when selecting a footprint, I would like to see the footprint _and_ its description in a popup window. I should be

Re: gEDA-user: installation

2007-03-18 Thread Stuart Brorson
Do not install as root. If you install as root, and you need to install system-wide dependencies, the installer becomes confused when it tries to fire up an expect session as root. Now I'm confused. In all these years of working on Unix, I've always thought packages need to be installed as

Re: gEDA-user: installation

2007-03-18 Thread C P Tarun
This is almost a religious issue. Aren't most questions which have many correct answers? :) However, I personally recommend users to install into a new directory, /usr/local/geda, and then set their $PATH variables to point to it... Great. This is really I wanted to know. I wanted to know

Re: gEDA-user: Design Flow Roadmap starting point

2007-03-18 Thread DJ Delorie
I assume that's the reason for PCB, too. No, pcb's plugins are very tightly coupled to the internal data structures. The reason I added pcb's plugins was to let people define their own actions without the cvs-build-merge issues, not as a generic way to allow for future expansion. You have

Re: gEDA-user: Design Flow Roadmap starting point

2007-03-18 Thread DJ Delorie
3. There should be native support for elongated vias (they are called pads in Eagle) when defining an element. The way to do this in pcb is to put a pin and a pad in the same place. The pin gives you the drill hole, and the pad defines the elongated copper shape. I suspect that I am

Re: gEDA-user: Icarus Verilog with Xilinx simprims...

2007-03-18 Thread Andy Peters
On Mar 17, 2007, at 7:56 PM, CSB wrote: Wow, thanks for the quick responses ! Does iverilog support SDF backannotation? The SDF has the delay information. Ah ! Now you mention it, I remember removing a $sdf_annotate line from the generated verilog file. It was causing an error with vvp, so

Re: gEDA-user: File corrupted after segmentation fault in pcb

2007-03-18 Thread Mikael W. Bertelsen
On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 14:01, DJ Delorie wrote: If you edit the .pcb file and remove all the Rats[] entries (they're all at the end) it will at least load. However, all the layer information is missing, so you'll have to re-add all the layers and redefine the layer groups. Well, I guess the

Re: gEDA-user: File corrupted after segmentation fault in pcb

2007-03-18 Thread Steve Meier
go look in your /tmp directory for unintentional back ups Mikael W. Bertelsen wrote: On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 14:01, DJ Delorie wrote: If you edit the .pcb file and remove all the Rats[] entries (they're all at the end) it will at least load. However, all the layer information is missing,

Re: gEDA-user: Tool to calculate Nyquist-plot or impedance?

2007-03-18 Thread Dan McMahill
Wen wrote: Hi list, I am going to do Equivalent circuit fitting for a university project with impedance spectroscopy. I am looking for a tool that first allows to define (via a graphic interface would be best) an electric circuit made of resistors, conductors, inductors and maybe constant

Re: gEDA-user: Tool to calculate Nyquist-plot or impedance?

2007-03-18 Thread al davis
On Sunday 18 March 2007 17:42, Wen wrote: Hi list, I am going to do Equivalent circuit fitting for a university project with impedance spectroscopy. I am looking for a tool that first allows to define (via a graphic interface would be best) an electric circuit made of resistors,

Re: gEDA-user: Design Flow Roadmap starting point

2007-03-18 Thread C P Tarun
3. There should be native support for elongated vias (they are called pads in Eagle) when defining an element. The way to do this in pcb is to put a pin and a pad in the same place. The pin gives you the drill hole, and the pad defines the elongated copper shape. Yes, I've tried this

Re: gEDA-user: Design Flow Roadmap starting point

2007-03-18 Thread C P Tarun
You may want to try one of the many footprint scripts that are around. Making the footprints in a batch using a script is a lot less error prone than one by one in the GUI. If you are looking for DIPs or SIP headers with rounded pads over pins you could try my website. Actually I've seen some

Re: gEDA-user: File corrupted after segmentation fault in pcb

2007-03-18 Thread Igor2
On Sun, 18 Mar 2007, Mikael W. Bertelsen wrote: If I take a look at the bright side, this incident did convinced me to finish my backup script which takes an hourly snapshot. Backup is not so bad after all. Why don't you use some sort of version control instead? :)

Re: gEDA-user: Design Flow Roadmap starting point

2007-03-18 Thread John Luciani
On 3/18/07, C P Tarun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You may want to try one of the many footprint scripts that are around. Making the footprints in a batch using a script is a lot less error prone than one by one in the GUI. If you are looking for DIPs or SIP headers with rounded pads over pins

Re: gEDA-user: Design Flow Roadmap starting point

2007-03-18 Thread C P Tarun
A script to place TO220 pads can be pretty simple (see below). The poorly named routine element_add_pin_oval overlays a pin, a rounded pad on the component side and a rounded pad on the solder side. Very interesting. What's Pcb_8? Where do I find it? I'm looking through your Website to see if

Re: gEDA-user: Design Flow Roadmap starting point

2007-03-18 Thread C P Tarun
Very interesting. What's Pcb_8? Where do I find it? I'm looking through your Website to see if there's some Perl module there. Found Pcb_8 in your Perl library documentation. Thanks. Tarun ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org

Re: gEDA-user: File corrupted after segmentation fault in pcb

2007-03-18 Thread Andy Peters
On Mar 18, 2007, at 8:06 PM, Igor2 wrote: On Sun, 18 Mar 2007, Mikael W. Bertelsen wrote: If I take a look at the bright side, this incident did convinced me to finish my backup script which takes an hourly snapshot. Backup is not so bad after all. Why don't you use some sort of version

Re: gEDA-user: File corrupted after segmentation fault in pcb

2007-03-18 Thread Igor2
On Sun, 18 Mar 2007, Andy Peters wrote: On Mar 18, 2007, at 8:06 PM, Igor2 wrote: On Sun, 18 Mar 2007, Mikael W. Bertelsen wrote: If I take a look at the bright side, this incident did convinced me to finish my backup script which takes an hourly snapshot. Backup is not so bad after

Re: gEDA-user: Design Flow Roadmap starting point

2007-03-18 Thread C P Tarun
A script to place TO220 pads can be pretty simple (see below). The poorly named routine element_add_pin_oval overlays a pin, a rounded pad on the component side and a rounded pad on the solder side. I have been reading your (excellently-formatted reference-class) documentation on your library.