gEDA-user: Re: Free ECB_AT91 actually isn't free

2007-03-19 Thread Nelson Castillo
On 3/19/07, Karel Kulhavy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: http://wiki.emqbit.com/free-ecb-at91 Hi Karel (you forgot to say hello). The licence is GPL and you are stating that the design is free, but it actually isn't. If anyone takes these files and distributes them further, he is violating the G

Re: gEDA-user: Design Flow Roadmap starting point

2007-03-19 Thread John Griessen
Dan McMahill wrote: how should PCB behave with a hierarchical schematic? by default for each cell to be an entity that you can grab and move around. The ability to visually toggle all hierarchical instances between the contents and a box is fairly useful. [jg]As in Cadence. To save on r

Re: gEDA-user: Design Flow Roadmap starting point

2007-03-19 Thread Dan McMahill
al davis wrote: * Finally, how should PCB behave with a hierarchical schematic? Right click on a symbol, select "go inside", and another drawing opens up showing what's inside. gschem also should act this way. I think what you want is by default for each cell to be an entity that you c

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

2007-03-19 Thread Dan McMahill
Mikael W. Bertelsen wrote: Hi all! I tried out the gEDA package and I am very impressed! My thanks to all who contributed to this project! I created a layout in pcb and just needed the last finish before the board was done. Unfortunately I marked two rats nets together with my component which I

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

2007-03-19 Thread John Griessen
CSB wrote: If your design is purely combinatorial, then of course you will have glitches, and remember that a post-fit timing simulation will show you these glitches for the particular routing the tools just used, which may change for each place-and-route run as you tweak the design. H

gEDA-user: Re: gEDA problems

2007-03-19 Thread Harold D. Skank
People, Please ignore my last posting. It seems I had some kind of line-wrap problem in my project file for the "gsch2pcb" command. Once I got that corrected, the netlist appears to be correct and things look OK now. Sorry about the confusion, and I thank you people for a very usable product (p

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA problems

2007-03-19 Thread DJ Delorie
Do your refdes's end in lower case letters? ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

gEDA-user: gEDA problems

2007-03-19 Thread Harold D. Skank
People, Seems like I've been here before, but I can't seem to remember the issues. As briefly as possible, the problem is that I have a large schematic, some 10 pages that include 8 large connectors, and 2 Xilinx, 1100 pin fpga's. Currently, the only net that I have connected is "GND." When I d

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

2007-03-19 Thread CSB
> If you're doing an asynchronous design, then you're on your own! > Current CPLD and FPGA methodologies don't lend themselves well to > async design. > Certainly the fitted design will have glitches, as delays through > various paths will be different. The point of synchronous design is

Re: gEDA-user: installation

2007-03-19 Thread joeft
Stuart Brorson wrote: My experience has been that if you are missing some system dependencies, the first expect session will always fail, whether running as root or not. This may be unique to the openSuSe distributions, but I don't think so. It is more likely just an issue exposed by the fa

Re: gEDA-user: installation

2007-03-19 Thread Stuart Brorson
My experience has been that if you are missing some system dependencies, the first expect session will always fail, whether running as root or not. This may be unique to the openSuSe distributions, but I don't think so. It is more likely just an issue exposed by the fact that the openSuSe inst

Re: gEDA-user: Design Flow Roadmap starting point

2007-03-19 Thread joeft
Igor2 wrote: On Sun, 18 Mar 2007, al davis wrote: * Finally, how should PCB behave with a hierarchical schematic? Right click on a symbol, select "go inside", and another drawing opens up showing what's inside. gschem also should act this way. I like this idea very much. I

Re: gEDA-user: Design Flow Roadmap starting point

2007-03-19 Thread DJ Delorie
> Couldn't resource file be used with the plugin mode of programming > to extend function? Since it is LISP-ish it seems closest to a > common file format language with gschem, which uses guile. Are > there rumors of planning to stop using guile? The resource file is purely data. Its primary

Re: gEDA-user: Design Flow Roadmap starting point

2007-03-19 Thread John Griessen
DJ Delorie wrote: [Al Davis]>> Design the file format first, then the data structures. The file format should be designed as a language for expressing what you want to express. PCB has a second format it uses called a "resource file". It's a semi-lisp-ish format that allows for arbitrarily ne

Re: gEDA-user: installation

2007-03-19 Thread joeft
Stuart Brorson wrote: 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

Re: gEDA-user: installation

2007-03-19 Thread joeft
C P Tarun wrote: 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

Re: gEDA-user: Design Flow Roadmap starting point

2007-03-19 Thread C P Tarun
I corrected the documentation and added the TO220 pads example to the Examples section. Great. Thanks. :) ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

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

2007-03-19 Thread Evan Lavelle
Stephen Williams wrote: I've changed your section to be one heading level down, assuming that is your desire. Thanks for contributing. Looks good - Thanks Evan ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailm

Re: gEDA-user: installation

2007-03-19 Thread Jason Elder
Thank you for the post and thank you for this clarification. I do usually run my home computer as root, but creating a user and installing this under that user won't be a big deal. I guess I just needed the clarification for peace of mind that I was doing the best thing for the installation.

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

2007-03-19 Thread Stephen Williams
Evan Lavelle wrote: > Günter Dannoritzer wrote: >> 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 > >

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

2007-03-19 Thread Günter Dannoritzer
Evan Lavelle wrote: > Günter Dannoritzer wrote: [...] >> >> Here are some information about that and a link to a previous discussion: >> >> http://iverilog.wikia.com/wiki/Graffiti#SDF_support > > I added a section to your entry covering the reasons for doing timing > simulations (same URL). > > H

Re: gEDA-user: Design Flow Roadmap starting point

2007-03-19 Thread John Luciani
On 3/19/07, C P Tarun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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-form

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

2007-03-19 Thread Evan Lavelle
Günter Dannoritzer wrote: 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 I added a section to your entry covering t

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

2007-03-19 Thread KURT PETERS
Try KJWaves (on sourceforge). The graphing routine allows you to select the Real or Imaginary part of any signal to place on any axis of a graph. It should do what you want. You just have to get your sim. ready to run on ngspice. Kurt Wen wrote: > Hi list, > I am going to do Equivalent cir

Re: gEDA-user: Design Flow Roadmap starting point

2007-03-19 Thread John Luciani
On 3/19/07, C P Tarun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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-form