X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-user-bounces using -f X-Recipient: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-TCPREMOTEIP: 207.224.51.38 X-Authenticated-UID: jpd AT noqsi DOT com From: John Doty Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="Apple-Mail=_1F313285-30E8-4091-9AD4-B652C6B45D3E" Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.3 \(1878.6\)) Subject: Re: [geda-user] New experimental netlist features Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2015 14:03:07 -0600 References: <20150908233235 DOT b6cde3ec6c40bf235a7a1df8 AT gmail DOT com> <201509082144 DOT t88LiOXW007712 AT envy DOT delorie DOT com> <201509082355 DOT t88NtdSM012317 AT envy DOT delorie DOT com> <201509091721 DOT t89HL4iS020376 AT envy DOT delorie DOT com> <20150909212022 DOT e0d7ed9a6eac110f71c1787c AT gmail DOT com> <201509091921 DOT t89JLiWa025041 AT envy DOT delorie DOT com> To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1878.6) Reply-To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk --Apple-Mail=_1F313285-30E8-4091-9AD4-B652C6B45D3E Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 On Sep 9, 2015, at 1:46 PM, Svenn Are Bjerkem = (svenn DOT bjerkem AT googlemail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] = wrote: >=20 > On 9 September 2015 at 21:21, DJ Delorie wrote: > Ok, but *you* get to write the parser for it :-) >=20 > Are we talking about parsing the target languages, or are we talking = about a bundle notation which the back-ends can translate? My opinion of what we=92re talking about (although I may be wrong). If = the target netlist language doesn=92t support busses (most cases) we = expand the bus to nets in the netlister. The netlister provides a = function to do this. If the bus notation of the target netlist language = matches our notation, we pass it through untranslated. For extra credit, = translate our bus notation to a different target bus notation. John Doty Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd. http://www.noqsi.com/ jpd AT noqsi DOT com --Apple-Mail=_1F313285-30E8-4091-9AD4-B652C6B45D3E Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=windows-1252


On 9 September 2015 at 21:21, DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
Ok, but *you* get to write the parser for it = :-)

Are we talking about parsing the target = languages, or are we talking about a bundle notation which the back-ends = can translate?

My opinion = of what we=92re talking about (although I may be wrong). If the target = netlist language doesn=92t support busses (most cases) we expand the bus = to nets in the netlister. The netlister provides a function to do this. = If the bus notation of the target netlist language matches our notation, = we pass it through untranslated. For extra credit, translate our bus = notation to a different target bus notation.

John Doty              Noqsi = Aerospace, Ltd.

http://www.noqsi.com/

jpd AT noqsi DOT com

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