Re: gEDA-user: new components

2010-03-09 Thread Levente Kovacs
Hi, I have a bunch of symbols here: http://logonex.eu/git/?p=svn.git;a=tree;f=gschem-sym;h=a684be6d0dc98a94e7d8ea092972e18f4a9cdce4;hb=90743ea21068a0c473ce71da1fd457353310ccf4 and a bunch of footprints here:

Re: gEDA-user: new components

2010-02-06 Thread John Griessen
Christian Riggenbach wrote: I normaly use a Makefile to generate the symbols out of the ASCII-files. It is relatively straightforward to generate a big list of the pins, describe them and then split this list to the logical symbols. I'd like to see an example of that, if your project is

Re: gEDA-user: new components

2010-02-05 Thread Mike Crowe
On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 15:55 -0800, Ben Jackson wrote: On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 06:11:44PM -0500, resea...@ottomaneng.com wrote: I'm also creating symbols for an FPGA and a DSP which naturally has alot of pins. I've once heard of using multiple files for the symbols so you For a really

Re: gEDA-user: new components

2010-02-05 Thread Ben Jackson
On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 03:33:25PM -0600, Mike Crowe wrote: tools (AT91SAM9G45, Atmel ARM9). The part is a 18 x18 =324 ball device ... Has anyone been making BGA parts with multiple symbol files? I've used PQ208 with one symbol per bank, one for general power (not IO-bank specific) and one

Re: gEDA-user: new components

2010-02-05 Thread Christian Riggenbach
Am Freitag 05 Februar 2010 22.33:25 schrieb Mike Crowe: Has anyone been making BGA parts with multiple symbol files? Yes, apparently ;) If so, what do I need to look out for as I go down the development path? Simply use the same designator for all parts, perhaps such with a special number.

Re: gEDA-user: new components

2010-02-05 Thread DJ Delorie
designators are labels K16, R2, G7, .. with the Alpha first, followed with the number. I tried to put in a pin label like this, but encountered problems with the online tool at Yeah, djboxsym assumes pins are numbered, as it sorts them and checks for missing ones when it dumps the stats at

Re: gEDA-user: new components

2010-02-04 Thread John Griessen
Mark Rages wrote: You are invited to use the interactive djboxsym editor on my website: http://vivara.net/cgi-bin/djboxsym.cgi I believe it is the easiest I maed a version of this to suit my style, (smaller compact box symbols), jgboxsym See http://www.gedasymbols.org/user/john_griessen/

Re: gEDA-user: new components

2010-02-04 Thread John Griessen
resea...@ottomaneng.com wrote: I'm also creating symbols for an FPGA and a DSP which naturally has alot of pins. Any pointers to how to deal with large pin count symbols Give this a look: http://www.gedasymbols.org/user/john_griessen

gEDA-user: new components

2010-02-02 Thread Chris Cole
Hey all, I'm new to the gEDA community (and fairly new to electronics in general), and I have a pretty simple question for the gurus. I was working on converting a PIC project schematic into gschem when I realized that none of the Microchip IC's I was using were in the component

Re: gEDA-user: new components

2010-02-02 Thread Andy Fierman
Hi Chris, Welcome to the free world! If you've not already found it, a good place to start is here: http://geda.seul.org/wiki/geda:gsch2pcb_tutorial then have a good read of: http://geda.seul.org/wiki/geda:gschem_symbol_creation and http://geda.seul.org/wiki/geda:transistor_guide Then

Re: gEDA-user: new components

2010-02-02 Thread Dave N6NZ
I find it best(*) in the long run to crank out my own symbols. For things like the PIC, I use a modified version of DJ's djboxsym. I also have a couple of little generator scripts for other parts. -dave * By best, I mean best way to get symbols that match my personal taste. On Feb 2,

Re: gEDA-user: new components

2010-02-02 Thread Stefan Salewski
On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 08:32 -0500, Chris Cole wrote: realized that none of the Microchip IC's I was using were in the component library. What's the standard procedure for this? Is it easier to mooch off an existing part or to create your own? If there is no symbol at www.gedasymbols.org I

Re: gEDA-user: new components

2010-02-02 Thread DJ Delorie
http://www.delorie.com/pcb/docs/gs/gs.html That's in the pcb source tree now, too. ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: new components

2010-02-02 Thread Mark Rages
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 7:32 AM, Chris Cole cle...@gmail.com wrote:   Hey all,   I'm new to the gEDA community (and fairly new to electronics in   general), and I have a pretty simple question for the gurus. I was   working on converting a PIC project schematic into gschem when I   realized

Re: gEDA-user: new components

2010-02-02 Thread Peter Clifton
On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 11:53 -0600, Mark Rages wrote: On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 7:32 AM, Chris Cole cle...@gmail.com wrote: Hey all, I'm new to the gEDA community (and fairly new to electronics in general), and I have a pretty simple question for the gurus. I was working on converting

Re: gEDA-user: new components

2010-02-02 Thread Peter Clifton
On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 18:17 +, Peter Clifton wrote: application/x-djboxsym or something like that. application/x-geda-djboxsym Would fit our upstream pattern better. Unfortunately, since djboxsym isn't shipped with gEDA sources (it could be if DJ wanted though), it would have to grow

Re: gEDA-user: new components

2010-02-02 Thread resea...@ottomaneng.com
I'm also creating symbols for an FPGA and a DSP which naturally has alot of pins. I've once heard of using multiple files for the symbols so you can move each freely (one for power, another for I/O, etc). This isn't covered in the symbol creation tutorial. Any pointers to how to deal with large

Re: gEDA-user: new components

2010-02-02 Thread Ben Jackson
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 06:11:44PM -0500, resea...@ottomaneng.com wrote: I'm also creating symbols for an FPGA and a DSP which naturally has alot of pins. I've once heard of using multiple files for the symbols so you For a really simple example look at http://ad7gd.net/xc9536/ where I split