Re: gEDA-user: icarus for-generate support

2007-06-18 Thread Matt Ettus
An update on this -- I think it has something to do with the sel_a[0:7] net. When declared as: wire [7:0] sel_a; Then Xilinx is ok with it, but I get an assertion in icarus. When declared as: wire sel_a [0:7]; then Xilinx flags an error, but Icarus gives a different assertion. Matt O

Re: gEDA-user: icarus for-generate support

2007-06-18 Thread Matt Ettus
Got another one for you. I am now using the latest git version as of this morning. I get the following assertion when trying to compile the attached files. They are short, but I put them in a tarball. The code shouldn't do anything useful yet, but I believe it is syntactically correct. The co

Re: gEDA-user: Switching regulator question

2007-06-18 Thread John Griessen
Randall Nortman wrote: > On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 10:46:31AM -0700, Steven Michalske wrote: >> Putting a LC filter on the output of the bridge rectifier will help >> you out. > > I looked briefly at LC filters to handle 120Hz ripple. Requires some > pretty large, expensive inductors I think he

Re: gEDA-user: Switching regulator question

2007-06-18 Thread Steven Michalske
On Jun 18, 2007, at 11:33 AM, Randall Nortman wrote: > On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 10:46:31AM -0700, Steven Michalske wrote: >> Putting a LC filter on the output of the bridge rectifier will help >> you out. > > I looked briefly at LC filters to handle 120Hz ripple. Requires some > pretty large, exp

Re: gEDA-user: Switching regulator question

2007-06-18 Thread DJ Delorie
> I looked briefly at LC filters to handle 120Hz ripple. Requires some > pretty large, expensive inductors if I'm not mistaken. Seems cheaper > in both board space and money to have more capacitance. Are you trying to filter the 120Hz ripple, or just block the switcher ripple? Using a small in

Re: gEDA-user: Switching regulator question

2007-06-18 Thread Randall Nortman
On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 10:46:31AM -0700, Steven Michalske wrote: > Putting a LC filter on the output of the bridge rectifier will help > you out. I looked briefly at LC filters to handle 120Hz ripple. Requires some pretty large, expensive inductors if I'm not mistaken. Seems cheaper in both b

Re: gEDA-user: icarus for-generate support

2007-06-18 Thread Matt Ettus
On 6/17/07, Stephen Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Your example below is within the skills of Icarus Verilog, but > there was a very recent fix for exactly this problem. According to > my git logs, it was committed 6/11/2007, which is *after* the very > last snapshot. So try the current gi

Re: gEDA-user: Switching regulator question

2007-06-18 Thread Steven Michalske
Putting a LC filter on the output of the bridge rectifier will help you out. The ferrite bead to decouple the large caps, not sure if that would help as much as the LC filter and some ceramics and maybe some tantalums. Be careful with over sizing switching power supplies, what is the m

Re: gEDA-user: Switching regulator question

2007-06-18 Thread John Doty
On Jun 18, 2007, at 11:12 AM, Randall Nortman wrote: > I am > over-designing the power supply to provide at least 1.5A at 70C. I > will > take an efficiency hit by over-designing that much, but I don't think > I'd feel comfortable with less margin. Maybe not. My experience with switchers is t

Re: gEDA-user: Switching regulator question

2007-06-18 Thread Randall Nortman
On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 10:48:52AM -0500, John Griessen wrote: > Randall Nortman wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 08:53:37PM -0400, Dan McMahill wrote: > > [...] > >> Personally I avoid aluminum electrolytics like the plague. > > > And I'm in the unfortunate situation of designing for 70C ambie

gEDA-user: autonumber improvements

2007-06-18 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
It's about time to praise whoever is responsible for the improved autonumber dialog (remove existing numbers, globbing, autoslotting(!)) This constitutes a major improvement of geschem usage. Thanks for coding! ---<(kaimartin)>--- -- Kai-Martin Knaak Universitä

Re: gEDA-user: Howto avoid the standard footprint library

2007-06-18 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 10:05:40 -0400, John Luciani wrote: > I believe there is --skip-m4 switch now. I am not sure when it was > added. This skips M4, but not the default newlib. Anyway, I can live with a script that temporarily renames the library dirs. They won't be permanenty removed, because

Re: gEDA-user: Switching regulator question

2007-06-18 Thread John Doty
On Jun 18, 2007, at 9:48 AM, John Griessen wrote: > Randall Nortman wrote: >> On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 08:53:37PM -0400, Dan McMahill wrote: >> [...] >>> Personally I avoid aluminum electrolytics like the plague. > >> And I'm in the unfortunate situation of designing for 70C ambient, >> natural ai

Re: gEDA-user: Switching regulator question

2007-06-18 Thread John Griessen
Randall Nortman wrote: > On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 08:53:37PM -0400, Dan McMahill wrote: > [...] >> Personally I avoid aluminum electrolytics like the plague. > And I'm in the unfortunate situation of designing for 70C ambient, > natural air convection for cooling. That temp means some expensive

Re: gEDA-user: Howto avoid the standard footprint library

2007-06-18 Thread John Luciani
On 6/18/07, Kai-Martin Knaak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'd like gsch2pcb to completely ignore the standard footprint library. > Instead, only our local collection of footprints should be used as they > are checked to comply to the design rules of our local pcb fab. > > Last time I asked on thi

gEDA-user: Howto avoid the standard footprint library

2007-06-18 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
I'd like gsch2pcb to completely ignore the standard footprint library. Instead, only our local collection of footprints should be used as they are checked to comply to the design rules of our local pcb fab. Last time I asked on this list, the only way was to manually move the libs to some oth

gEDA-user: Bug in quad_opamp-1.sym

2007-06-18 Thread Randall Nortman
I think the power supply pins in this standard library symbol are reversed -- pin 11 is V+ and 4 is V-, and all the standard-footprint quad opamps I've seen have it the other way. Fortunately, the pin label attribute is not visible on the symbol, just the number, so the designer is at least encour

Re: gEDA-user: Switching regulator question

2007-06-18 Thread David Kerber
That temp range looks like something you might seen in an automotive engine control application, so you might look for suppliers who work in that industry. Dave -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Randall Nortman Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2007

Re: gEDA-user: Switching regulator question

2007-06-18 Thread Bob Paddock
On Sunday 17 June 2007 20:53, Dan McMahill wrote: > Or better yet, use ... For tantalums in > switchers, it used to be the case that you should derate the voltage by > 2x since you can get uneven voltage drops in the dielectric under > transient conditions. Tantalums should also be "Surged Ra