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.
-- 
richard lucassen
http://contact.xaq.nl/
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