Mail Archives: geda-user/2018/07/24/12:26:03
John:
> Large projects can be quite complex.
>
> You may have different symbol libraries for prototype and production.
>
> You may have partial implementations: test boards and the like.
> One recent project of mine had two production board variants,
> where which board you made depended on which subset of the top
> level schematics you chose.
>
> You often simulate fragments of the system, so each simulation
> is its own subproject based on its own subset of the schematics.
>
> You may need to support multiple layout systems.
>
> Projects often contain parts outside the EDA toolkit, like LaTeX
> documents, C code, VHDL code, etc.
>
> The general-purpose tool for handling this kind of thing is “make”.
Yes, after a while in my projects, makefiles tend to creap in,
and in a way the Makefile is the project file, it tells how things
are glued together.
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Currently I do the test/prototype boards and another guy does the final
layout in another tool (kicad, he doesn't like kicad but don't want to
learn yet another eda tool).
Unfortunately kicad isn't good att automation, like export to pdf,
which works wery well in geda. I'm trying to build solutions to bind
the systems together, and that goes for pcb-rnd and lepton also.
Regards,
/Karl Hammar
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