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

2010-03-09 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Mon, 8 Mar 2010 20:32:01 -0300, Facundo Ferrer facundo.j.fer...@gmail.com wrote: When I ran on this server gnetlist alloc more than 95% of the RAM and at this point started to swap and when all the swap was allocated the 'top' command is not refreshed properly and I have a hard work trying

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

2010-03-09 Thread Peter Clifton
On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 12:26 -0300, Facundo Ferrer wrote: Hi Peter, Thanks for your time. I'll try to rewrite the gnetlist but not now. I have to finish my thesis so I have to use the university provided software. If you're anything like me.. sitting down to write your thesis will

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

2010-03-09 Thread Facundo Ferrer
Hi Peter, Thanks for your time. I'll try to rewrite the gnetlist but not now. I have to finish my thesis so I have to use the university provided software. Thanks all. On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 6:40 AM, Peter TB Brett [1]pe...@peter-b.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 8 Mar 2010

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

2010-03-08 Thread Facundo Ferrer
Hi again, I was on a trip so sorry for the delay. Respect for the above comments I make some tests on other hardware. My laptop hardware (1 processor): Intel Core 2 Duo P8600 Mobile processor CPU speed: 2.4 GHz FSB: 1066 MHz L2 cache: 3MB RAM: 4GB OS: Ubuntu

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

2010-03-03 Thread John Doty
On Mar 1, 2010, at 1:44 AM, al davis wrote: On Sunday 28 February 2010, John Doty wrote: Ah, but it has an open interface we can use. A great strength of gEDA is that the tools play well with other tools, whether they are part of gEDA or not. I don't care how many proprietary tools you

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

2010-03-02 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Sat, 27 Feb 2010 22:30:12 -0300, Facundo Ferrer facundo.j.fer...@gmail.com wrote: Hi I was working on my thesis project and I'm designing a 6-bit flash converter. The circuit has 63 comparators (made by me) , 63 inverters (made by me) and 1 decoder (126 inputs and 6 outputs, also made by

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

2010-03-02 Thread Peter Clifton
On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 12:24 +0900, timecop wrote: Please kindly use computers from this century. I'm not sure what this comment relates to, or whether it is intended to be constructive, humorous or otherwise.. Nothing I've seen suggests the machine Facundo is using is particularly old. --

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

2010-03-02 Thread Peter Clifton
On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 00:23 -0300, Adrian Pardini wrote: On 01/03/2010, Facundo Ferrer facundo.j.fer...@gmail.com 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

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

2010-03-02 Thread John Doty
On Mar 2, 2010, at 8:29 PM, Peter Clifton wrote: Sounds like gnetlist is really struggling with the multiple schematics - this could perhaps be an inefficiency in how the guile back-ends are written, or something similar in the core gnetlist code. As someone who works with big designs in

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

2010-03-02 Thread Peter Clifton
On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 06:17 +0900, John Doty wrote: I believe the poor scaling is in the front end: which back end you use doesn't seem to matter. I know there are a number of cases where the backends are badly coded, and will quickly run out the guile stack using inefficiently recursive

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

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 which

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

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 facundo.j.fer...@gmail.com 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

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 facundo.j.fer...@gmail.com 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

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

2010-02-28 Thread al davis
On Sunday 28 February 2010, John Doty wrote: Ah, but it has an open interface we can use. A great strength of gEDA is that the tools play well with other tools, whether they are part of gEDA or not. I don't care how many proprietary tools you can leverage by starting the schematic on

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

2010-02-27 Thread Facundo Ferrer
Hi I was working on my thesis project and I'm designing a 6-bit flash converter. The circuit has 63 comparators (made by me) , 63 inverters (made by me) and 1 decoder (126 inputs and 6 outputs, also made by me). I have a source file for each component (actually more than 127 files

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

2010-02-27 Thread John Doty
On Feb 28, 2010, at 10:30 AM, Facundo Ferrer wrote: Hi I was working on my thesis project and I'm designing a 6-bit flash converter. The circuit has 63 comparators (made by me) , 63 inverters (made by me) and 1 decoder (126 inputs and 6 outputs, also made by me). I have a source file

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

2010-02-27 Thread gene glick
Facundo Ferrer wrote: When I try to check my circuit with drc or drc2 gnetlist finished with a buffer overflow. I don't know how to solve this. Also, I tried with spice-sdb but gnetlist finish with Killed. Have you tried this: http://www.geda.seul.org/wiki/geda:faq-gnetlist

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

2010-02-27 Thread al davis
On Saturday 27 February 2010, John Doty wrote: It looks like you're using the kind of hierarchy suitable for a printed circuit flow, not a SPICE/ASIC flow. I suggest first reading the excellent tutorial at http://www.brorson.com/gEDA/SPICE/intro.html. Ouch .. That was written 6 years

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

2010-02-27 Thread John Doty
On Feb 28, 2010, at 2:17 PM, al davis wrote: On Saturday 27 February 2010, John Doty wrote: It looks like you're using the kind of hierarchy suitable for a printed circuit flow, not a SPICE/ASIC flow. I suggest first reading the excellent tutorial at