gEDA-user: Looking for cheaper alternative do the LT1205CS (Video Mux)

2010-03-01 Thread Anthony Shanks
I am looking for a lower cost replacement for the 2:1 mux I am using for video applications. I need a total of 6 muxes (RGB+Sync and L/R audio). Right now I am using 2 of these for the 6 muxes I need. Bandwidth is not a huge concern as I'm not using this for HDTV applications. Would appretiate gE

Re: gEDA-user: TO-92 Best Practices

2010-03-01 Thread DJ Delorie
> Do they even make SOT-23 sockets? For matching, can you just press them onto a pcb carrier? Something that plugs into a breadboard, and gives you three big copper pads to contact? Assuming holding them down with your finger or even just letting gravity do the work, it might be sufficient. ht

Re: gEDA-user: TO-92 Best Practices

2010-03-01 Thread Donald Tillman
On Mar 1, 2010, at 7:12 PM, Mark Rages wrote: On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 5:27 PM, Donald Tillman wrote: Hey folks, What's considered Best Practices for TO-92 packages? Redesign with SOT-23. Easier to solder, faster than stuffing TO-92. Sheeshe... I probably will go to surface mount at so

Re: gEDA-user: TO-92 Best Practices

2010-03-01 Thread Donald Tillman
On Feb 27, 2010, at 3:57 PM, John Luciani wrote: I use two different footprints. Both footprints have the pins inline. One footprint spaces the leads 1.39mm the other 2.60mm. The 2.60mm is the common formed lead pattern. I believe I used the spec from On-Semi. I use a finished hole

Re: gEDA-user: Need help repairing a damaged FPGA board (GR-PCI-XC2V)

2010-03-01 Thread Torsten Wagner
Just a bit OT but: since you refered to students, you might like to check wether the following evaluation kit is suitable for your needs: AVNETs Xilinx® Spartan®-3A Evaluation Kit http://tinyurl.com/avnet-dev-kit Features beside the typical FPGA stuff: somehow open (datasheets, etc.

Re: gEDA-user: TO-92 Best Practices

2010-03-01 Thread Geoff Swan
Ignoring the response(s) from timecop, I don't believe the suggestion to try sot-23 was intended to be either elitist or unhelpful. *if* the option to use a different footprint is available then in many cases there is a great deal of advantage to using the sot-23 layout. If the work is being done b

Re: gEDA-user: TO-92 Best Practices

2010-03-01 Thread Vanessa Ezekowitz
On Tue, 2 Mar 2010 12:19:22 +0900 timecop wrote: > Why woudl someone use to92 in 2010. One could ask why I use TO-18's in this day and age, and I'd answer "because I can." Really though, most of my projects are retro in nature, so TO-18 just fits that look. -- "There are some things in life

Re: gEDA-user: TO-92 Best Practices

2010-03-01 Thread DJ Delorie
> Up to now, it's been because I design soldering kits for beginners. > But from now on, I'll do it just to piss you off. :-) I hate it when you ask for help with one thing, and people suggest you do something else. Folks, when someone asks how to deal with TO-92, don't suggest they use somethi

Re: gEDA-user: TO-92 Best Practices

2010-03-01 Thread Dave McGuire
On Mar 1, 2010, at 10:19 PM, timecop wrote: Why woudl someone use to92 in 2010. What does the year have to do with it?? -Dave -- Dave McGuire Port Charlotte, FL ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.o

Re: gEDA-user: TO-92 Best Practices

2010-03-01 Thread Windell H. Oskay
On Mar 1, 2010, at 7:19 PM, timecop wrote: > Why woudl someone use to92 in 2010. Up to now, it's been because I design soldering kits for beginners. But from now on, I'll do it just to piss you off. Why does Don use them? I don't know. Perhaps he has a low-noise JFET that doesn't come in S

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA user: gnetlist -gdrc buffer overflow and gnetlist -gspice-sdb killed

2010-03-01 Thread timecop
Please kindly use computers from this century. On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Facundo Ferrer wrote: >   Hi, >   I have an Ubuntu distro: >   facu...@uni-laptop:~$ uname -a >   Linux uni-laptop 2.6.31-19-generic #56-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jan 28 02:39:34 >   UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux >   I have installe

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA user: gnetlist -gdrc buffer overflow and gnetlist -gspice-sdb killed

2010-03-01 Thread Adrian Pardini
On 01/03/2010, Facundo Ferrer wrote: [...] >The output was quite differente in drc2 check. Now the gnetlist finish >with 'Killed' instead of 'Buffer overflow' but anyway does not create >the netlist (the same output for drc2 and spice-sdb backends). >After that I realize that there

Re: gEDA-user: TO-92 Best Practices

2010-03-01 Thread timecop
Why woudl someone use to92 in 2010. On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Windell H. Oskay wrote: > > On Mar 1, 2010, at 7:15 PM, Geoff Swan wrote: > What's considered Best Practices for TO-92 packages? >>> >>> Redesign with SOT-23.  Easier to solder, faster than stuffing TO-92. >> >> +1 > >

Re: gEDA-user: TO-92 Best Practices

2010-03-01 Thread Windell H. Oskay
On Mar 1, 2010, at 7:15 PM, Geoff Swan wrote: >>> What's considered Best Practices for TO-92 packages? >>> >> >> Redesign with SOT-23. Easier to solder, faster than stuffing TO-92. > > +1 Yeah, you guys are helpful. Next up: Q: How do I stop my dog from barking? A: Get a goldfish. :P _

Re: gEDA-user: TO-92 Best Practices

2010-03-01 Thread Geoff Swan
>> What's considered Best Practices for TO-92 packages? >> > > Redesign with SOT-23.  Easier to solder, faster than stuffing TO-92. +1 ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: TO-92 Best Practices

2010-03-01 Thread Mark Rages
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 5:27 PM, Donald Tillman wrote: > Hey folks, > > What's considered Best Practices for TO-92 packages? > Redesign with SOT-23. Easier to solder, faster than stuffing TO-92. Regards, Mark markra...@gmail -- Mark Rages, Engineer Midwest Telecine LLC markra...@midwesttelecin

Re: gEDA-user: TO-92 Best Practices

2010-03-01 Thread Paul Probert
Donald Tillman wrote: Hey folks, What's considered Best Practices for TO-92 packages? I'm working on a project that involves a lot of discrete transistors in TO-92 packages -- the regular style, 3 in-line, no fancy triangular pinouts or lead forming or anything. The TO92 package in pcblib-n

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA user: gnetlist -gdrc buffer overflow and gnetlist -gspice-sdb killed

2010-03-01 Thread Facundo Ferrer
Hi, I have an Ubuntu distro: facu...@uni-laptop:~$ uname -a Linux uni-laptop 2.6.31-19-generic #56-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jan 28 02:39:34 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux I have installed gEDA from the Ubuntu repos. The version is quite old: gEDA/gschem version 1.4.3.20081231 Today I downl

Re: gEDA-user: Need help repairing a damaged FPGA board (GR-PCI-XC2V)

2010-03-01 Thread Peter Clifton
On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 17:00 -0500, Timothy Normand Miller wrote: > Any suggestions and help would be most appreciated! Just as a reference.. I presume you have the user manual for the board. It mentions the power supply stages, and shows a diagram.. 5V in -> 3.3V -> 1.5V core voltage, via 2 LDO

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA user: gnetlist -gdrc buffer overflow and gnetlist -gspice-sdb killed

2010-03-01 Thread Peter Clifton
On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 19:54 -0300, Facundo Ferrer wrote: > Hi again! >I have the following lines in my gnetlisrc: >(debug-options (list 'stack 20)) >(eval-options (list 'stack 20)) This is a lame thing for me to suggest, since I don't _know_ of any bug which has been fixed whic

Re: gEDA-user: Need help repairing a damaged FPGA board (GR-PCI-XC2V)

2010-03-01 Thread Peter Clifton
On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 15:19 -0700, Eric Brombaugh wrote: > That's a fairly old board (Spartan 2), looks like a PCI interface, along > with some memory, Ethernet and RS-232. Depending on the exact features > you need, you could buy up-to-date development boards from Digilent with > an academic di

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA user: gnetlist -gdrc buffer overflow and gnetlist -gspice-sdb killed

2010-03-01 Thread Facundo Ferrer
Hi again! I have the following lines in my gnetlisrc: (debug-options (list 'stack 20)) (eval-options (list 'stack 20)) Also, I tried with a bigger number and editing directly the gnet-drc2.scm but the error still appearing. Reviewing my previous flash converter (3 bits)

Re: gEDA-user: Need help repairing a damaged FPGA board (GR-PCI-XC2V)

2010-03-01 Thread Eric Brombaugh
On 03/01/2010 03:00 PM, Timothy Normand Miller wrote: A relatively new professor here at OSU had one of these FPGA boards: http://www.pender.ch/docs/GR-PCI-XC2V_product_sheet.pdf Unfortunately, some students recently fried part of the power regulation circuit. We don't have the expertise to re

Re: gEDA-user: Need help repairing a damaged FPGA board (GR-PCI-XC2V)

2010-03-01 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Mon, 1 Mar 2010 17:00:30 -0500, Timothy Normand Miller wrote: > Unfortunately, some students recently fried part of the power > regulation circuit. How practical repairs will be depends on the exact failure mode. Could you tell us exactly what was done to induce the frying, and what symptoms

Re: gEDA-user: Need help repairing a damaged FPGA board (GR-PCI-XC2V)

2010-03-01 Thread DJ Delorie
Easy enough to repair. Get two soldering irons. Using two hands (one for each iron), heat both sides of the component, and lift it off the board. Clean with desolder braid and solder on the new components. ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.

gEDA-user: Need help repairing a damaged FPGA board (GR-PCI-XC2V)

2010-03-01 Thread Timothy Normand Miller
A relatively new professor here at OSU had one of these FPGA boards: http://www.pender.ch/docs/GR-PCI-XC2V_product_sheet.pdf Unfortunately, some students recently fried part of the power regulation circuit. We don't have the expertise to repair it ourselves, and we don't have the budget to buy s

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA/gaf Mac OSX screenshots?

2010-03-01 Thread Stefan Salewski
On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 08:09 -0500, Charles Lepple wrote: > > You may use this medium size 4 layer board: > > > > http://www.ssalewski.de/DAD.html.en > > Stefan, > > I get a 404 error on the board download link. > > - Charles > Sorry -- fixed. __

gEDA-user: How to create a .model device line from datasheet

2010-03-01 Thread Rubén Gómez Antolí
Hello all: How you do to create a .model device line from datasheet? In some comercial apps there are some tools for do this, but (I think) don't be in gEda. I had looking for some doc to do this with no success, there are something somewhere? In concrete I need a .model for a UF4004 diode

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA/gaf Mac OSX screenshots?

2010-03-01 Thread Charles Lepple
On Feb 27, 2010, at 12:18 PM, Stefan Salewski wrote: On Sat, 2010-02-27 at 11:01 -0500, Charles Lepple wrote: I have an old design I could use, but if anyone else is looking to publicize their design this way, email me a link, and l'll load it up on a Mac and take a few screenshots. You m

gEDA-user: Google Summer of Code 2010

2010-03-01 Thread Robert Fitzsimons
So are any gEDA projects/people going to try and participate in GSoC 2010? Mentoring organizations applications begin on March 8th and end on March 12th. I've some student friends and one or two of them might be interested in working on gEDA related projects for this years GSoC. Robert __

Re: gEDA-user: gedasymbols.org down

2010-03-01 Thread Florian Teply
John Griessen wrote: > John Griessen wrote: >> Bob Paddock wrote: >>> On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Kai-Martin Knaak >>> wrote: gedasymbols.org seems non responsive at the moment. > > > I added an A record for DNS and the gedasymbols.org mirror in CA > responds briskly now from TX whe

Re: gEDA-user: gedasymbols.org down

2010-03-01 Thread Florian Teply
Bob Paddock wrote: > On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Kai-Martin Knaak > wrote: >> >> gedasymbols.org seems non responsive at the moment. >> Any hint for a reason? > > Blizzard in that area would be my guess. Lots of places without power. > > Someone set up a mirror in Texas at some point?? >