gEDA-dev: Fwd: google soc

[John Griessen]

DJ Delorie wrote:
>> Does PCB use libgeda?
> 
> Why would pcb need to read schematics?

I say there's never a way to predict how someone odd
could come up with a high performance flow of doing things...
So, "Why not?" is my favorite attitude on this.

Maybe an
antenna and RF front end designer would make a layout-driven
workflow instead of schematic-driven?

 From the chip design viewpoint, your cell boundaries
are unreal, so you could easily decide to rework them in a layout-driven way
and create new schematics to match.  Once we have low effort hierarchy
handling in gschem/PCB/gnetlist I think it's natural to want it to
be definable from any starting point -- and to be able to copy/paste parts and redefine
modules quickly.  And one way would be to generate a new netlist from a reworked
layout cell, then a schematic to match.

John Griessen