gEDA-dev: Re: GEDA development ....

[John Doty]

On May 8, 2007, at 1:24 PM, al davis wrote:

>
> The problem with Spice is that it is not flexible enough.  It
> might be flexible enough for you, but lots of people bump
> against its problems on a regular basis.  That's why there are
> others like Spectre, Touchstone, Hyperlynx, Nano-sim, Rice, and
> many others.

Well, then quit throwing rocks at SPICE and do something better.  
SPICE may be a klunker, but it's better than vapor. Yes, I know it  
has problems, I've been working around them for years. But you can't  
beat something with nothing. I google for Verilog-AMS and 99% of what  
comes up is hype, not substance.

>
> "gnetlist" does one kind of translation.   ..  From gschem out.
> I was addressing all the others.  The concept I proposed is to
> translate in two steps.  In to a common interchange format,
> then out.  That way we need only 2*n translators, instead of
> n^2.  I want to make it easy to support many formats, without
> adding the baggage of carrying them all.

Now you worry me again. Sounds like EDIF.

John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
http://www.noqsi.com/
jpd at noqsi.com