Re: gEDA-user: transition of pcb internal units to metric (SI, mm)

2011-02-08 Thread Edward Hennessy
--- On Tue, 2/8/11, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > > Let's aim for the lowest possible denominator: The Planck > length! >     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_length > Conveniently, there is also a measure of time for the performance analysis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_interval C

Re: gEDA-user: transition of pcb internal units to metric (SI, mm)

2011-02-08 Thread Edward Hennessy
On Feb 7, 2011, at 10:41 AM, DJ Delorie wrote: > > * nanometer internal units > > * 32-bit values on 32-bit machines, 64-bit on 64-bit. > > * configure option for 64-bit values regardless of machine in case you > need a board larger than seven feet across. What about storing both imperial and

Re: gEDA-user: Soft and Hard symbols

2011-01-12 Thread Edward Hennessy
On Jan 12, 2011, at 11:29 AM, al davis <[1]ad...@freeelectron.net> wrote: Both of these are areas where we could take the lead, but I need help to do that. I can't do it alone, and can't do it if people are fighting it. Does anyone want to help? I would like to help with this

Re: gEDA-user: Soft and Hard symbols

2011-01-03 Thread Edward Hennessy
On Jan 3, 2011, at 8:20 AM, Stefan Salewski wrote: > I guess all this was discussed on the list multiple times in the past, > so this is more a note to myself... > > I think it may be useful to have two types of symbols, soft and hard. > Hard symbols have an footprint attribute and maybe additio

Re: gEDA-user: Database on symbols, footprints and other (was "Re: gattrib")

2010-10-09 Thread Edward Hennessy
On Oct 9, 2010, at 3:25 AM, Armin Faltl wrote: > > > Edward Hennessy wrote: >> On Apr 29, 2010, at 2:14 AM, Armin Faltl wrote: >> >>> To express the many-to-many relation between parts and symbols it uses >>> a table called "device". This i

gEDA-user: Location of system-gafrc

2010-10-08 Thread Edward Hennessy
All, The part manager needs to know the location of system-gafrc file. When installing from a Debian package on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, the file is located in /etc/gEDA/system-gafrc. This prefix does not match any of the build directory variables in the part manager or match anything returned from g

Re: gEDA-user: Database on symbols, footprints and other (was "Re: gattrib")

2010-10-08 Thread Edward Hennessy
On Apr 29, 2010, at 2:14 AM, Armin Faltl wrote: > To express the many-to-many relation between parts and symbols it uses > a table called "device". This is fed by the infamous device attribute > in the symbol libraries. There's nothing wrong in the theory of DB-design > with it, but the indiscrim

gEDA-user: Locating the system-gafrc at Build Time

2010-10-08 Thread Edward Hennessy
All, The part manager needs to know the location of system-gafrc file. When installing from a Debian package on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, the file is located in /etc/gEDA/system-gafrc. This prefix does not match any of the build directory variables in the part manager or match anything re

Re: gEDA-user: gschem sym files

2010-09-28 Thread Edward Hennessy
On Sep 28, 2010, at 12:59 PM, Steven Michalske wrote: > > On Sep 28, 2010, at 6:00 AM, Andrew Miner wrote: > >> would also like to see a pwr_src pin type which would be the output of the >> voltage regulator (or source). That way the DRC would warn you if you >> shorted two power sources toget

Re: gEDA-user: Database on symbols, footprints and other (was "Re: gattrib")

2010-05-06 Thread Edward Hennessy
On May 6, 2010, at 10:48 AM, John Doty wrote: > > On May 6, 2010, at 11:38 AM, John Doty wrote: > >> On May 6, 2010, at 11:26 AM, Edward Hennessy wrote: >> >>> I didn't know of another way to implement this function. GParts is looking >>> for whe

Re: gEDA-user: Database on symbols, footprints and other (was "Re: gattrib")

2010-05-06 Thread Edward Hennessy
On Apr 29, 2010, at 12:28 PM, Armin Faltl wrote: > Hi, > > I read some of the SQL files yesterday and just started an attempt to build > gparts. > The INSTAL file list requirements for building with MySQL and PostgreSQL. > The later are present on my machine and I'm used to that DB. > > Then i

Re: gEDA-user: Database on symbols, footprints and other (was "Re: gattrib")

2010-05-06 Thread Edward Hennessy
On Apr 29, 2010, at 1:01 PM, Armin Faltl wrote: > Another strange thing with gparts: > > in 'sql/mysql/create-basic.sql' one finds: > cut > ... > CREATE TABLE Symbol ( > > SymbolIDINTEGER UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, > SymbolPa

Re: gEDA-user: Database on symbols, footprints and other (was "Re: gattrib")

2010-05-06 Thread Edward Hennessy
On May 1, 2010, at 3:12 PM, Felipe De la Puente Christen wrote: > Hi, > Just to let you (Developers of gparts) know that I have compiled the > git version of gparts, and when I run the program it segfaults searching > for parts data. Thanks for the report. > > fel...@monster:/usr/local/s

Re: gEDA-user: Database on symbols, footprints and other (was "Re: gattrib")

2010-05-06 Thread Edward Hennessy
On May 6, 2010, at 5:17 AM, Armin Faltl wrote: > Thanks for all the hints on working with the current tools. > > Still my current concern is how I get gparts working with PostgreSQL and I > found > these BUGS: > *) configure doesn't react in a sensible way to a missing MySQL installation. > It

Re: gEDA-user: Parts Manager Working Document

2010-01-27 Thread Edward Hennessy
--- On Wed, 1/27/10, Peter Clifton wrote: > Good database design dictates that the device types are not > hard-coded > into the data-structure, there is no explicit "resistors" > table JOIN'd > to drag in resistor specific data etc.. There really isn't a good solution for relational databases.

Re: gEDA-user: Parts Manager Working Document

2010-01-19 Thread Edward Hennessy
On Jan 19, 2010, at 8:50 AM, al davis wrote: >> On Jan 19, 2010, at 3:41 AM, Florian Teply wrote: >>> Anything else to add?? >> > > I guarantee you will leave something out, and that you will > include some useless stuff. I agree. > Just make sure the design is such that fields can be added

Re: gEDA-user: Parts Manager Working Document

2010-01-19 Thread Edward Hennessy
On Jan 19, 2010, at 3:41 AM, Florian Teply wrote: > Anything else to add?? A few suggestions for additional parameters: - Count (for resistor arrays) - Pb-free (for RoHS and WEEE) - Operating temperature range Cheers, Ed ___ geda-user mailing list

Re: gEDA-user: Parts Manager Working Document

2010-01-16 Thread Edward Hennessy
On Jan 11, 2010, at 2:02 AM, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > Can you elaborate a bit? > What exactly is the parts manager supposed to do? > How will/should it integrate with gschem/gsch2pcb/pcb ? I added a bit more description to the working document including a graphic showing the integration. http:

Re: gEDA-user: Parts Manager Working Document

2010-01-15 Thread Edward Hennessy
On Jan 12, 2010, at 4:18 AM, Florian Teply wrote: > Just as it enters my mind: This parts manager is essentially a > hierarchical parts database. I could imagine that some guys would want > to integrate other stuff like inventory, preferred dealers, pricing, > dealer part numbers and such. On the

Re: gEDA-user: Parts Manager Working Document

2010-01-10 Thread Edward Hennessy
Florian, Thanks for the feedback. On Jan 9, 2010, at 3:30 AM, Florian Teply wrote: a) There seems to be a link between part and document missing. Documents are completely described, but never referenced. I created an ERD and put it in the working document. b) Symbol: a

gEDA-user: Parts Manager Working Document

2010-01-08 Thread Edward Hennessy
All, I created a working document for a gEDA parts manager on the gEDA wiki. http://geda.seul.org/wiki/geda:gparts_dd If anyone has feedback or specific requirements, please provide feedback to geda-dev or geda-user mailing lists. I'll continue to update the document as the project progresses.

Re: gEDA-user: blue sky ideas - written down finally

2009-12-30 Thread Edward Hennessy
Regarding component databases: I'm working on a parts manager for gEDA. Although not completely functional yet, the source is located in the git archive. The program allows a user to browse and select a component from a database. The parts manager will instantiate the component and then perform

Re: gEDA-user: Trace impedance calculations in PCB

2009-02-12 Thread Edward Hennessy
On Feb 12, 2009, at 9:06 AM, al davis wrote: > > That is one of the reasons we need a translator system that > (among others) will translate a PCB to a netlist format. When > that happens, Gnucap is ready to do a full SI simulation, > including IBIS. ... and of course trace impedance. Is there