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On Mar 1, 2016, at 1:24 PM, al davis <ad252 AT freeelectron DOT net> wrote:
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>>> Import, back-annotation.
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>> They are exporters. These things are not their province.
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> That's the reason for this new project.
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>>> Support for all symbols.
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>> What do you mean by that?
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> All of the gnetlist spice netlisters contain a list of symbols that =
are
> explicitly translated, one at a time. This is a fundamental shortfall
> of the design. You have many times pointed out flaws in PCB where the
> design prevented what you consider to be sufficient generality. Now
> here the design is much more limited.
Actually, gnet-spice-noqsi is fully extensible. It has a short builtin =
list of common devices it thinks it understands (basically the list from =
gnet-spice-sdb), but the user can, with a spice-prototype attribute, =
tell it what to do for any symbol.
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>>> Looking beyond that, all that plus:
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>>> Verilog, VHDL completeness.
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>>> To/from other schematic formats (Kicad, Qucs).
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>> Difficult. For flat netlists, there is a common understanding of what
>> the underlying abstraction is. The problem is mostly encoding (with a
>> few oddities like instance parameters in SPICE). For schematics,
>> there is no such general understanding.
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> Yes it is difficult. The Gnucap project has a plan for this, with a
> different underlying abstraction.
> This underlying abstraction is well defined and much of the code for
> the general case is already written. We are looking for help to write
> translation plugins for some specific targets, in and out of the
> system, and inviting students to apply under Google Summer of Code.
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John Doty Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
http://www.noqsi.com/
jpd AT noqsi DOT com
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