Re: gEDA-user: Linux Desktop für gEDA

2011-08-05 Thread Philipp Klaus Krause
Am 04.08.2011 21:33, schrieb DJ Delorie: just log out, Log out? Log OUT? What's that? ;-) How do you upgrade kernels? Philipp ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: gnucap?

2011-03-18 Thread Philipp Klaus Krause
Am 18.03.2011 03:32, schrieb Dave McGuire: Tonight I went looking for the latest gnucap development snapshot. The latest I've been able to find in 2-3mins of googling was from December of 2009. That can't be right. Al? Pointer? http://redmine.gnucapplus.org/

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

2011-02-08 Thread Philipp Klaus Krause
Am 08.02.2011 12:17, schrieb John Doty: On Feb 8, 2011, at 3:48 AM, Stephan Boettcher wrote: John Doty j...@noqsi.com writes: I doubt PCB will ever be a suitable tool for chip design. Why? Because it's far too ad hoc in its design. It's a collection of special features, lacking any

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

2011-02-08 Thread Philipp Klaus Krause
Am 08.02.2011 10:14, schrieb Link: Seeing as 32-bit operating systems (even on 64-bit machines!) are still widely used, and anything smaller than a nanometre is overkill for the time being, I'd say playing nice with 32-bit is, at the moment, more important than making sure people can design

Re: gEDA-user: European symbols?

2010-12-31 Thread Philipp Klaus Krause
Am 31.12.2010 16:31, schrieb Stephan Boettcher: Maybe your time is better invested by using a small FPGA for whatever you want to build, and learn Verilog to express the logic. Depends how much fun can have from learning such stuff. A deadline does not seem to be your problem. (It

gEDA-user: Edge connectors and stencil

2010-12-26 Thread Philipp Klaus Krause
I have created a footprint for an edge connector. I created the fingers the way I would create pads. However looking at the paste gerber created, this means that solder paste is put on the fingers, which I don't want. How can I change this? Philipp

Re: gEDA-user: a different approach to 3D modeling

2010-11-19 Thread Philipp Klaus Krause
Am 19.11.2010 23:07, schrieb Colin D Bennett: It has to be mentioned that Blender is free and open source but Google Sketchup is not. Let's not forget other free software, like wings3d, which may be less powerful compared to blender, but is much more newbie-friendly, and quite good for

Re: gEDA-user: How do write an autorouter?

2010-09-13 Thread Philipp Klaus Krause
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 13.09.2010 09:02, schrieb Oliver King-Smith: So I want to auto route a design for my ASIC, and magic is being a little flakey (It seems it connects some nets together that don't belong and fail to connect nets that do belong). I was

Re: gEDA-user: Functional blocks and PCB format changes

2010-09-04 Thread Philipp Klaus Krause
Am 04.09.2010 05:29, schrieb Rick Collins: XML? What's wrong with XML? Heavy? How heavy are a few electrons anyway? There is already a preliminary XML based CAD data spec proposed by IPC, you know, the guys who write specs for the PCB assembly industry... I don't know if it is the best

Re: gEDA-user: Icarus verilog Synthesis

2010-09-04 Thread Philipp Klaus Krause
Am 04.09.2010 06:19, schrieb Ronald Mathias: I transform the Verilog code containing behavioral statements into verilog code that contains only gate level instantiations. This is passed as input to ABC Logic synthesis tool. Finally the output generated by ABC is passed to

gEDA-user: How to read a file in Icarus Verilog

2009-07-27 Thread Philipp Klaus Krause
For a testbench I'd like to read a binary file. However fread() is not supported in Icarus Verilog. Are there any alternatives? Philipp ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

gEDA-user: Icarus: Synthesize Verilog to Verilog

2009-07-23 Thread Philipp Klaus Krause
Is it possible to use Icarus to simplify Verilog code? I would like to use Berkeley VL2MV/VIS and SIS or ABC, however these tools understand only a very limited subset to verilog. Can Icarus be used to synthesize Verilog into a simplified Verilog? SIS and ABC seem to be a good tools for

Re: gEDA-user: Timing in Icarus Verilog not working

2009-07-21 Thread Philipp Klaus Krause
I now found a working alternative: module and2 (A, B, O); input A ; input B ; output O ; and #(3.62329, 4.98817) (O, A, B); endmodule Philipp ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org

gEDA-user: Timing in Icarus Verilog not working

2009-07-20 Thread Philipp Klaus Krause
I want to model gate delays, but everything happens without delay. Icarus gives no errors messages or warnings. I used gates such as the following: module and2 (A, B, O); input A ; input B ; output O ; and (O, A, B); specify // delay parameters specparam rise =

gEDA-user: Timing simulation in Icarus Verilog

2009-07-06 Thread Philipp Klaus Krause
I would like to use Icarus Verilog for timing simulation. Is this possible? I would have delay times for gates from another source (probably spice simulation). I'd like to generate a gate netlist using Icarus and then simulate it using the delay times. I sthis possible? If no, what would be the

Re: gEDA-user: Looking for PCB fab recommendations

2009-06-20 Thread Philipp Klaus Krause
Michael Sokolov schrieb: Peter TB Brett pe...@peter-b.co.uk wrote: * SnPb finish - this one is an absolute requirement for ideological / philosophical reasons, RoHS crap is *not* acceptable. In the nicest possible way, WTF? [...] The lead-free crap suffers from the severe problem of

Re: gEDA-user: Soldering supplies

2009-06-09 Thread Philipp Klaus Krause
Dave McGuire schrieb: On Jun 9, 2009, at 10:08 PM, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: Can someone recommend the easiest solder to work with (% lead, No lead. *PUKE* I've stocked up on real solder. The unleaded crap sucks. I've found SnAgCu0.7 as easy for hand soldering as the Sn60Pb I

Re: gEDA-user: fritzing

2009-04-29 Thread Philipp Klaus Krause
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 KURT PETERS schrieb: Anyone have any comments on Fritzing? [1]http://archive.fritzing.org/ Kurt References 1. http://archive.fritzing.org/ Looking at their website I wonder why they decided to partially reinvent the wheel and

gEDA-user: pinseq - pinnumber?

2009-03-11 Thread Philipp Klaus Krause
http://geda.seul.org/wiki/geda:master_attributes_list sys that each pin needs both a pinnumber and a pinseq. Why? Just so everyone who creates a symbol using gschem has to click and type twice as much? Is there some tool that just duplicates the values of pinnumber into pinseq? Philipp

Re: gEDA-user: pinseq - pinnumber?

2009-03-11 Thread Philipp Klaus Krause
Well, I just used gschem to make symbols for the 64-pin XC9572 (by modifying the symbols for the 44-pin XC9532 from gedasymbols.org). It wasn't that much work. However now I'll have to set all those pinseq values. Philipp ___ geda-user mailing list

Re: gEDA-user: Schematics for plain PC-based Digital Storage Oscilloscope

2008-09-07 Thread Philipp Klaus Krause
Kai-Martin Knaak schrieb: On Sun, 07 Sep 2008 20:06:21 +0200, Stefan Salewski wrote: http://www.ssalewski.de/DAD.html.en Wow, this is ambitious! :-) An open sourced DSO would be a feat. Wasn't Bitscope something similar? Philipp ___

Re: gEDA-user: Adding extra layer

2008-09-06 Thread Philipp Klaus Krause
der Mouse schrieb: Anyway, memory is cheap. Only for mainstream mass-market hardware. Of course, that may be all gEDA cares about If we lose users in order to save 1 K, or even 1 Meg of RAM, that doesn't make sense. Depends. To what extent is more users an overriding good? In

Re: gEDA-user: Linux's answer to SolidWorks

2008-09-01 Thread Philipp Klaus Krause
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dave N6NZ schrieb: An STL file? If it's just an STL file I suggest wings3d. While not as powerful as blender it's much easier to learn. Philipp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla -

Re: gEDA-user: printing gerbers in windows

2008-08-20 Thread Philipp Klaus Krause
Robert Butts schrieb: I can't get my printer working yet in Linux and was wondering, in the interum, is there a way to print gerbers in windows? I'd like to make a quick two-sided pcb. Print to a file in Linux. This will give you a .ps or .pdf. You can convert the .ps to a .pdf. Print the

Re: gEDA-user: Place part outside of board outline

2008-06-27 Thread Philipp Klaus Krause
Tamas Szabo schrieb: Hello All, I would like to place a connector to the PCB but I'm unable to put it to the right position, since no part of the connector can be over the board outline specified in preferences. I realized it earlier but now it became significant. Is there a way to

Re: gEDA-user: Global puller crashes pcb

2008-06-13 Thread Philipp Klaus Krause
DJ Delorie schrieb: When I try to use the global puller on the attached board pcb 20080202 exits. Old news, lots of boards make it crash. How come this is board-specific? I'd rather expect it to crash depending on which lines I selected, but in this board it crashes no matter which lines I

Re: gEDA-user: Global puller crashes pcb

2008-06-13 Thread Philipp Klaus Krause
DJ Delorie schrieb: Well, if you discovered some new and unique way of crashing it, perhaps. Otherwise, it's likely you're doing a pull all instead of pull selected. pull all always crashes. pull selected crashes whenever I have at least two line segments selected. Philipp

Re: gEDA-user: Autorouter won't work (hang)

2008-06-12 Thread Philipp Klaus Krause
Greg Cunningham schrieb: routed for me (1.8GHz)in 10-15 mins (not sure,... I was fiddling with another app). I can see about 4 un-routed rats left. What's your pcb version? Mine is 20080202. Philipp ___ geda-user mailing list

gEDA-user: gsch2pcb can't find pcb footprint

2008-06-11 Thread Philipp Klaus Krause
I've just created a pcb footprint, but gsch2pcb can't find it. I get the error message 1 elements could not be found. And -v -v shows: Searching: packages/custom symbols for CVEXTCONN-1 : SIM-1.sym No : SIM-1.sym~ No :

Re: gEDA-user: gsch2pcb can't find pcb footprint

2008-06-11 Thread Philipp Klaus Krause
DJ Delorie schrieb: 1. file suffixes aren't magic. If it's looking for CVEXTCONN-1 there needs to be a file called CVEXTCONN-1 available. 2. *.sym are gschem symbols. PCB uses *.fp footprints. Sorry, I confused the name of the pcb footprint and the geda symbol. It's working now.

gEDA-user: Autorouter won't work (hang)

2008-06-11 Thread Philipp Klaus Krause
While I've found the autorouter to take some time in the past I now have a problem where it doesn't seem to complete at all, resulting in a program hang. The board isn't very complex, the autorouter doesn't complete in 7 hours on a Core 2 Duo running at 1.2 Ghz. Philipp bar.pcb Description:

Re: gEDA-user: Opening file created using pcb 20050609 makes pcb 20070208 crash.

2007-09-06 Thread Philipp Klaus Krause
Sorry to bump this topic, I hope it will be forgiven if I don't do it a second time. Has anyone noticed this problem before? Philipp ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: Professional PCB help using geda?

2007-09-05 Thread Philipp Klaus Krause
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 DJ Delorie schrieb: As for 10-layer boards and high speed signals, I think anyone with enough experience to do that is already going to have a set of tools they'd be comfortable with, and it's hard to convince people to change - there's very

gEDA-user: Moving, rotating descriptors problem

2007-08-30 Thread Philipp Klaus Krause
I have a problem with a layout I just created: While most of the descriptors can be moved and rotated, this doesn't work with three of them. Clicking on them with the rotate tool does nothing. They don't move when I try to drag them with the selection tool. These tree are capacitor (SIP2 package

Re: gEDA-user: Moving, rotating descriptors problem

2007-08-30 Thread Philipp Klaus Krause
Kai-Martin Knaak schrieb: The components are probably locked. Thanks. Now it works. Is there some rule about when descriptors are locked by default? Philipp ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org

gEDA-user: Opening file created using pcb 20050609 makes pcb 20070208 crash.

2007-08-29 Thread Philipp Klaus Krause
File attached. What can I do to open this file in pcb? Philipp # release: pcb-bin 20050609 # date:Sat Apr 1 17:07:33 2006 # user:philipp (Philipp Klaus Krause,,,) # host:localhost.localdomain PCB[L1.2 158300 165500] Grid[1000. 0 0 1] Cursor[97400 85800 2.00] Thermal

gEDA-user: [OT]gold - electroless, flash or immersion

2007-08-21 Thread Philipp Klaus Krause
I'm a bit confused about the different types gold surface finish. AFAIR immersion gold is thicker than the other two, but I don't know more. How do they compare in price and reliability? Philipp ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org

gEDA-user: Rotating reference designators

2007-08-08 Thread Philipp Klaus Krause
I've just created a simple layout using gschem, gsch2pcb and pcb. I've rotated some elements using cut to buffer, rotate, paste. This rotated the elementes including their reference designators. How can I rotate the reference designators back? Now I have a C4 facing the other way compared to C2.

Re: gEDA-user: gschem2pcb netlist problem

2007-08-06 Thread Philipp Klaus Krause
Philipp Klaus Krause schrieb: I have a problem in a recently created schematic: gschem2pcb creates a netlist where +5V and GND are connected together. I do not see such a connection in the schematic (5V stuff is in the lower left corner only, VCC is +3.3V) gschem2pcb worked initially

gEDA-user: gschem2pcb netlist problem

2007-08-05 Thread Philipp Klaus Krause
I have a problem in a recently created schematic: gschem2pcb creates a netlist where +5V and GND are connected together. I do not see such a connection in the schematic (5V stuff is in the lower left corner only, VCC is +3.3V) gschem2pcb worked initially, then I realized that pins on the voltage

gEDA-user: Unwanted compent markings

2007-07-27 Thread Philipp Klaus Krause
I just updated my pcb version to 20070208. When I load a design there are descriptions like U1, R1, CONN1, etc near the components now. I don't want these. How can I get rid of them? Philipp ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org

Re: gEDA-user: Unwanted compent markings

2007-07-27 Thread Philipp Klaus Krause
DJ Delorie schrieb: I just updated my pcb version to 20070208. When I load a design there are descriptions like U1, R1, CONN1, etc near the components now. I don't want these. How can I get rid of them? Um, pcb should have been showing those all along. I don't think you can hide *just*

Re: gEDA-user: Unwanted compent markings

2007-07-27 Thread Philipp Klaus Krause
Andy Peters schrieb: I suspect that most people would prefer to see a refdes instead of a value on the silkscreen. I probably could live with refdes near resistors, capacitors and chips, but I really don't want the CONN1 - it's just the card edge that is inserted into a slot, no compoent

Re: gEDA-user: Unwanted compent markings

2007-07-27 Thread Philipp Klaus Krause
DJ Delorie schrieb: Menu: View-Value Of course, that assumes you've set up the values to begin with. I think it copies the value attribute from gschem, but I rarely look at the values in pcb anyway. Hmm, now it says 10K near the resistor, .22 followed by two black boxes - I assume pcb

Re: gEDA-user: Verilog to logic gates - how?

2007-06-14 Thread Philipp Klaus Krause
Predrag Bradaric wrote: Hi. I'm new to this group and 'world' of HDL. I worked with Altera's QUARTUS - designing some simple applications in AHDL and VHDL (really, on a basic level). That's when I saw the power of FSM in designing 'simple' logic circuits, and power of VHDL in designing

gEDA-user: Any-to-one connections

2007-03-15 Thread Philipp Klaus Krause
I'm currently drawing a schematic using gschem. There's a GAL in it and some other chips. Since the GAL's outputs /inputs are all equivalent I don't care which output is used for some task. For example I want to feed a GAL output into the output enable of an EPROM. So I want one of the GAL's

gEDA-user: Busses in gschem

2007-03-15 Thread Philipp Klaus Krause
I'm creating my first schematic using gschem (previously I schematics were in my head or on paper only and I only used pcb to create the pcb layout). I've drawn lots of nets when I noticed the button for busses. How do I use these (the documentation only states Buses are very new and there are

net vs netname (was Re: gEDA-user: Busses in gschem)

2007-03-15 Thread Philipp Klaus Krause
Steve Meier schrieb: Philipp, Standard gshem and gnetlist (gsch2pcb) treat buses as a graphical object that doesn't influence the final netlist in anyway. If your design is flat hook up a net segment from a components pin to the bus. Select the net segment and add a net attribute net=D0

gEDA-user: How to program PAL/GAL?

2007-03-13 Thread Philipp Klaus Krause
Is Icarus PAL still alive? if not is there maintained free software to program the 22V10? Philipp ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: C question

2007-03-03 Thread Philipp Klaus Krause
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Coppens schrieb: 'Static' is normally reserved to specify the data should never be destroyed by the compiler if the compiler thinks it's not necessary any more (eg. to make data 'static', i.e. available between function calls to the same