gEDA-user: LVS and other pcb related questions

2009-12-01 Thread Anthony Shanks
Hi all, I have some questions about pcb. 1. I have the concept down of how pcb interacts with the components you place on the board and the netlist you load and I have them working properly, as I can properly highlight nets and components with the netlist browser. However, from what I can tell,

Re: gEDA-user: LVS and other pcb related questions

2009-12-01 Thread DJ Delorie
However, from what I can tell, there still isn't any concept of lvs in pcb, or am I missing that? PCB doesn't know about LVS, stripline, differential pairs, or any of that. If not, is there at least a way to make sure that your netlist and pcb have exactly the same number of components with

Re: gEDA-user: LVS and other pcb related questions

2009-12-01 Thread Eric Brombaugh
On 12/01/2009 11:57 AM, DJ Delorie wrote: However, from what I can tell, there still isn't any concept of lvs in pcb, or am I missing that? PCB doesn't know about LVS, stripline, differential pairs, or any of that. I think he means LVS as in Logic vs Schematic - a form of layout checking

Re: gEDA-user: LVS and other pcb related questions

2009-12-01 Thread DJ Delorie
I think he means LVS as in Logic vs Schematic - a form of layout checking commonly found in ASIC design, not LVDS as in Low-Voltage Differential Signaling. Ah. In PCB, what we do is have (1) the netlist, which is from the schematic and knows what should be, and (2) the rats nest and DRC,

Re: gEDA-user: LVS and other pcb related questions

2009-12-01 Thread John Griessen
DJ Delorie wrote: Ah. In PCB, what we do is have (1) the netlist, which is from the schematic and knows what should be, and (2) the rats nest and DRC, which come from the PCB and know what is. The o key compares the two. DRC will find multiple placements, one of which is not connected to

Re: gEDA-user: LVS and other pcb related questions

2009-12-01 Thread John Griessen
Anthony Shanks wrote: Hi all, 3. Right now, I am running gnetlist -g PCB on my schematics to generate the pcb netlist file. The problem is I have multiple schematics that I am generating a netlist from and I am manually appending the refdes to indicate which schematic the netlist comes