Re: gEDA-user: TI's SOT25 DBV footprint...

2009-07-08 Thread Duncan Drennan
TI's sn74lvc1g240 part uses what appears dimensionally to be an ordinary SOT25 package, but the pin numbering is different.  Am I better off to just construct my own footprint, or is there a way to deal with this at the symbol level and still show the right pin numbers in the schematic? I'm

gEDA-user: minipack issues

2009-07-08 Thread Duncan Drennan
I've been trying to compile gEDA for win32 using minipack, but it keeps failing while downloading the packages. It successfully downloads gettext and libiconv, but then all further packages have this result: Downloading jpeg from ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/jpeg/jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz ... --10:31:28--

Re: gEDA-user: Toporouter Changes

2009-07-08 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
On Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:52:55 +1200, Anthony Blake wrote: Unfortunately, some of the usability issues such as existing tracks, are not very interesting problems to work on. This is why I keep assuring you, that a fix of these issues would be greeted with an enthusiastic welcome by us users

gEDA-user: More robust support of multi-part symbols.

2009-07-08 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
I like to use separate power symbols for ICs. However, I constantly hit the usability issues associated with this approach. Support for multi- part symbols is quite fragile. For example, gnetlist just checks the footprint attribute of the first symbol it encounters. That is, the footprint

Re: gEDA-user: More robust support of multi-part symbols.

2009-07-08 Thread John Luciani
This sounds good to me. If some of this code is used by the BOM utility then aggregating other attributes by refdes could be useful. I have my own BOM script that aggregates the attributes manufacturer and manufacturer_part_number, in a hash, by refdes. (* jcl *) -- You

Re: gEDA-user: More robust support of multi-part symbols.

2009-07-08 Thread Stefan Salewski
On Wed, 2009-07-08 at 12:18 +, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: My time schedule is a bit relaxed in the weeks to come. So I thought, I might engage in contributing to the geda project by tweaking this aspect a little. This would be very nice. Indeed I had some trouble with missing sub-parts

Re: gEDA-user: TI's SOT25 DBV footprint...

2009-07-08 Thread Bill Gatliff
Duncan Drennan wrote: TI's sn74lvc1g240 part uses what appears dimensionally to be an ordinary SOT25 package, but the pin numbering is different. Am I better off to just construct my own footprint, or is there a way to deal with this at the symbol level and still show the right pin numbers in

Re: gEDA-user: More robust support of multi-part symbols.

2009-07-08 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
On Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:51:18 +0200, Stefan Salewski wrote: Of course subparts may reside on different sheets, so maybe not every one wants this. You still have to make sure that the set of parts is complete and all bear the same refdes. I figure, it is more reliable to move automatically

Re: gEDA-user: TI's SOT25 DBV footprint...

2009-07-08 Thread John Luciani
I would keep the footprint pin numbering consistent with the schematic symbol and datasheet pin numbering. If that means additional symbols and footprints then I would create them. If there are differences between mfgs of the same part number then I would attach a mfg suffix

Re: gEDA-user: More robust support of multi-part symbols.

2009-07-08 Thread Bill Gatliff
Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: 1) gnetlist should look for a footprint in every instance of a refdes Agreed. I use multiple symbols per part as well, but tend to put the footprint= in just the power symbol. I also tend to group all my power symbols onto one or two pages by themselves. 2)

Re: gEDA-user: More robust support of multi-part symbols.

2009-07-08 Thread Bill Gatliff
John Luciani wrote: aggregates the attributes manufacturer and manufacturer_part_number, Are those two attributes a common convention? I've been using manufacturer= and manufacturer_partnumber=. I've also been doing vendor_partnumber_digikey= and vendor_partnumber_mouser=, but I'm not

Re: gEDA-user: More robust support of multi-part symbols.

2009-07-08 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
On Wed, 08 Jul 2009 10:32:15 -0500, Bill Gatliff wrote: Maybe what you need instead of a complete parts list is a depends-on specification, Sounds good. There is no change for the simple case, say opamp plus opamp power symbol. And it will work for your more sophisticated strategy too. 6)

Re: gEDA-user: More robust support of multi-part symbols.

2009-07-08 Thread DJ Delorie
I looked around, and haven't seen anything documented for these attributes. http://www.gedasymbols.org/csv.html ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: More robust support of multi-part symbols.

2009-07-08 Thread John Luciani
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Bill Gatliff [1]b...@billgatliff.com wrote: John Luciani wrote: aggregates the attributes manufacturer and manufacturer_part_number, Are those two attributes a common convention? I've been using manufacturer= and

Re: gEDA-user: More robust support of multi-part symbols.

2009-07-08 Thread John Doty
On Jul 8, 2009, at 12:25 PM, John Luciani wrote: Putting vendor information into the schematic is not a good idea. True, but... Using your project symbols as capsules for that data is convenient and easy. The error is using the library symbols directly: that's a bad idea for all of

Re: gEDA-user: More robust support of multi-part symbols.

2009-07-08 Thread Bill Gatliff
DJ Delorie wrote: I looked around, and haven't seen anything documented for these attributes. http://www.gedasymbols.org/csv.html Great!! b.g. -- Bill Gatliff b...@billgatliff.com ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org

Re: gEDA-user: More robust support of multi-part symbols.

2009-07-08 Thread Bill Gatliff
DJ Delorie wrote: I looked around, and haven't seen anything documented for these attributes. http://www.gedasymbols.org/csv.html How do you want to handle multiple vendors with different vendor part numbers? b.g. -- Bill Gatliff b...@billgatliff.com

Re: gEDA-user: More robust support of multi-part symbols.

2009-07-08 Thread Bill Gatliff
John Luciani wrote: On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Bill Gatliff [1]b...@billgatliff.com wrote: John Luciani wrote: aggregates the attributes manufacturer and manufacturer_part_number, Are those two attributes a common convention? I've been using

Re: gEDA-user: More robust support of multi-part symbols.

2009-07-08 Thread John Luciani
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 2:36 PM, John Doty [1]...@noqsi.com wrote: On Jul 8, 2009, at 12:25 PM, John Luciani wrote: Putting vendor information into the schematic is not a good idea. True, but... Using your project symbols as capsules for that data is convenient

Re: gEDA-user: More robust support of multi-part symbols.

2009-07-08 Thread DJ Delorie
How do you want to handle multiple vendors with different vendor part numbers? Separate tables. In my dream world, symbols have values (like 2.32k) and a footprint class (like 0603). Footprints can be defaulted (in the export step, not the symbol) so I don't have to fill in 0603 for nearly

Re: gEDA-user: More robust support of multi-part symbols.

2009-07-08 Thread Michael Sokolov
DJ Delorie d...@delorie.com wrote: So, in my dream world, there's exactly one 2-NAND gate symbol, for example. Mapping that to a specific gate in a specific part, with pinning, power, manufacturer and vendor information, pricing, and footprint infomation, is all done by a separate database

Re: gEDA-user: More robust support of multi-part symbols.

2009-07-08 Thread Joerg
Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: I like to use separate power symbols for ICs. However, I constantly hit the usability issues associated with this approach. Support for multi- part symbols is quite fragile. For example, gnetlist just checks the footprint attribute of the first symbol it

Re: gEDA-user: Needs create a language (english, spanish...) specific list?

2009-07-08 Thread Rubén Gómez Antolí
Hello all: Stefan Salewski escribió: On Sat, 2009-07-04 at 13:55 +0200, Rubén Gómez Antolí wrote: Hello all. In last months I think about is a good point to create specifics language list [...] What you think about? Is this really a good idea? Well, this is the target, discussing

Re: gEDA-user: More robust support of multi-part symbols.

2009-07-08 Thread Dave N6NZ
6) gschem should read the parts list and insert all parts at once. Please clarify what this does. Are you saying that if I add one section of a 74ls00 I get the other three automatically? That fails in the case where I add a positive logic picture for sections A and B, and negative logic

Re: gEDA-user: More robust support of multi-part symbols.

2009-07-08 Thread Stefan Salewski
On Wed, 2009-07-08 at 13:49 -0700, Dave N6NZ wrote: Well, then IMHO, KiCad sucks. :) Power belongs on a symbol by itself, and that symbol belongs on an infrastructure page, not on the same page as functional data flow. But that's just me. (And all other right thinking people :)

Re: gEDA-user: More robust support of multi-part symbols.

2009-07-08 Thread Joerg
Dave N6NZ wrote: 6) gschem should read the parts list and insert all parts at once. Please clarify what this does. Are you saying that if I add one section of a 74ls00 I get the other three automatically? That fails in the case where I add a positive logic picture for sections A and B,

Re: gEDA-user: More robust support of multi-part symbols.

2009-07-08 Thread Stefan Salewski
On Wed, 2009-07-08 at 14:33 -0700, Joerg wrote: That makes hardcore analog stuff very hard to understand. But you can do it with current gEDA: Put the functional symbol and the corresponding power symbol close together. The same refdes indicate that they belong together. There is not really

Re: gEDA-user: More robust support of multi-part symbols.

2009-07-08 Thread Joerg
Stefan Salewski wrote: On Wed, 2009-07-08 at 14:33 -0700, Joerg wrote: That makes hardcore analog stuff very hard to understand. But you can do it with current gEDA: Put the functional symbol and the corresponding power symbol close together. The same refdes indicate that they belong

Re: gEDA-user: Toporouter Changes

2009-07-08 Thread John Griessen
Anthony Blake wrote: I don't think it would be that hard to constrain a signal to be always coupled to its return path. If the return path is single, yes. What if it is just part of a ground plane? How do you tell the router about imperfect conduction? That's not topology, it's fields

Re: gEDA-user: More robust support of multi-part symbols.

2009-07-08 Thread John Griessen
Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: it may not be too difficult for a low time hacker like me. This is a list of sub goals for this little project: 1) gnetlist should look for a footprint in every instance of a refdes 2) add a known attribute parts that lists all symbols of a component (should the

Re: gEDA-user: More robust support of multi-part symbols.

2009-07-08 Thread John Doty
On Jul 8, 2009, at 3:38 PM, Stefan Salewski wrote: On Wed, 2009-07-08 at 14:33 -0700, Joerg wrote: That makes hardcore analog stuff very hard to understand. But you can do it with current gEDA: Put the functional symbol and the corresponding power symbol close together. The same refdes

Re: gEDA-user: More robust support of multi-part symbols.

2009-07-08 Thread Dave N6NZ
Stefan Salewski wrote: On Wed, 2009-07-08 at 13:49 -0700, Dave N6NZ wrote: Well, then IMHO, KiCad sucks. :) Power belongs on a symbol by itself, and that symbol belongs on an infrastructure page, not on the same page as functional data flow. But that's just me. (And all other right

Re: gEDA-user: footgen.py

2009-07-08 Thread Darrell Harmon
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 8:12 AM, Levente Kovacsleventel...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I've added capability to omit pins at the dip type. This enables to generate footprints for reed relays. type = dip omitballs = 3,4,5,10,11,12 pins = 14 will generate something like that *   * *   *

Re: gEDA-user: minipack issues

2009-07-08 Thread Cesar Strauss
Duncan Drennan wrote: I've been trying to compile gEDA for win32 using minipack, but it keeps failing while downloading the packages. It successfully downloads gettext and libiconv, but then all further packages have this result: Downloading jpeg from

Re: gEDA-user: More robust support of multi-part symbols.

2009-07-08 Thread Bill Gatliff
Steve Meier wrote: Talking about gates and using the term slots is so 1980's. Today's issues are how are pga's supported. How are multiple logic levels, being able to define a pin as an input an output or bi-directional or differential? How are the gates logic levels defined? Let alone, how

Re: gEDA-user: More robust support of multi-part symbols.

2009-07-08 Thread Ben Jackson
On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 09:20:54PM -0700, Steve Meier wrote: Let alone, how at the layout level we can do pin swapping and back annotation. I've thought about working on that, because I've dealt with that problem in almost every project I've done with geda/pcb. I'd love to know how the big