Mail Archives: geda-help/2018/12/23/12:04:08
On Sun, 23 Dec 2018 17:15:14 +0100 (CET)
gedah AT igor2 DOT repo DOT hu wrote:
> >Uhhh, the latest version of OrCad I used was 3.20, IIRC the DOS-6.22
> >version of 1989, I have never seen a better SDT than that version of
> >82kB (!) in size (ex libs). I was already wondering if I could import
> >Calay formatted netlists into pcb-rnd, but I didn't see the
> >option :-(
>
> Netlist is cheap to implement. If you supply example files and
> testing, that can happen in a few days.
Even if it's 30 years old?
> >It was 20 years ago that I used IRC. I'll try to install it. What IRC
> >program do you advise? I use non systemd Debian testing.
>
> Im a console junkie so I prefer text based ones. I use ircII, but
> irssi is popular too.
>
> Server: repo.hu
> port: 6667
> channel: #pcb-rnd
>
> there's no registration, ssl, cloaks or anything, just plain old IRC.
I joined through the irc.debian.org server.
I was already having the idea to pipe the netlist trough sed in order
to get a gschem lookalike netlist, but I didn't try it until now. I have
to look up in the docs which netlist formats OrCad can produce. Here
is such a 30 year old Calay output format (which was needed by Layo1):
/N00001 C3(2) R5(1) C2(1);
/N00002 C2(2) Q3(2) R7(1);
/N00003 C5(2) Q7(2) R8(1);
/N00004 Q3(1) Q4(2);
/N00005 Q7(1) Q8(2);
/N00006 Q4(1) R5(2) R2(1) C4(1);
/N00007 Q8(1) R10(2) R4(1) C1(1);
[-- 8< -- snip -- 8< --]
/N00085 Z6(1) C3(1) R12(1) R71(1) C13(1) C30(1) C35(1);
/N00086 Z4(1) Q36(1) R60(1);
/N00087 Z3(1) Q27(1) R39(1);
/+15 Q6(3) Q5(3) Q2(3) Q1(3) Z7(1) C45(1) Q7(3) Q8(3),
Q9(3) Q3(3) Q4(3) Q13(3) Q12(3) Q18(3) Q11(3),
Q10(3) Q16(3) Q17(3) Q14(3) Q15(3) Q22(3) Q21(3),
Q27(3) Q20(3) Q19(3) Q25(3) Q26(3) Q23(3) Q24(3),
Q31(3) Q30(3) Q36(3) Q29(3) Q28(3) Q34(3) Q35(3),
Q32(3) Q33(3);
/GND C11(2) C8(2) Z2(2) R71(2) Z3(2) Z4(2) Z6(2) C45(2),
Z9(1) C46(1) Z5(2) P1(3) R9(2) R6(2) Z1(2),
P2(3) C22(2) C19(2) R30(2) R27(2) P3(3) C26(2),
C27(2) R44(2) R45(2) R42(2) R43(2) P4(3) C44(2),
C41(2) R66(2) R63(2);
/-15 R3(2) R1(2) C46(2) Z8(1) R19(2) R4(2) R2(2) R24(2),
R21(2) R20(2) R23(2) R22(2) R39(2) R36(2) R35(2),
R38(2) R37(2) R60(2) R57(2) R56(2) R59(2) R58(2);
And the component file:
value component shape ? ? ?
+15 Z7 EILAND08 1600 4736 1
-15 Z8 EILAND08 2112 4736 1
100N C1 CMKT03-2 2176 2880 1
10K R5 XR-04 1152 2432 0
10K R6 XR-04 448 2432 0
10K R7 XR-04 1024 2688 0
10K R8 XR-04 512 2048 0
10K R9 XR-04 512 2240 0
10K R10 XR-04 1984 2240 1
[-- 8< -- snip -- 8< --]
I will have to find out what the 3 values on the right mean.
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richard lucassen
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