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Re: gEDA-user: Spice netlister



On Jan 20, 2008 6:17 PM, Stuart Brorson <sdb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I have just tried the spice netlister with a trivial hierarchical
> > design (a circuit that contains subcircuit that contains a MOS
> > transistor). This was just before Stuart sent his mail.
>
> I'd be curious to see what happens if you try some of the suggestions
> in my e-mail.  In particular, using Makefiles to manage large projects
> -- rather than some built-in facilities of the EDA program itself --
> is one of the strengths of the gEDA approach, once you get used to
> it.

I use "make" (well, in fact it's custom equivalent). But using it just
for netlisting is simply an overkill. I would rather write my own
custom netlister instead.

> Yes, I realize that many folks want the tool to do everything,
> but that's not how gEDA currently works.  Rather, we try to exploit
> gEDA's openness, and leverage other unix tools to help create
> designs.  We try to follow the unix philosophy of having small tools
> which do one thing well, and then use scripts and other glue to build
> larger workflows.  It's not what some people expect nowadays, since
> they've become used to the Windows application "everything *and* the
> kitchen sink" philosophy.

Well, I need a netlister.

> > HERE is what I
> > got:
> >
> > * gnetlist -I -g spice-sdb -o top.net lib3/top.sch
> > *********************************************************
> > * Spice file generated by gnetlist                      *
> > * spice-sdb version 4.28.2007 by SDB --                 *
> > * provides advanced spice netlisting capability.        *
> > * Documentation at http://www.brorson.com/gEDA/SPICE/   *
> > *********************************************************
> > *==============  Begin SPICE netlist of main design ============
> > M1/M1 1 3 2 2 nmos4  l=3u w=1u
> > S 2 <No valid value attribute found>
> > G 3 <No valid value attribute found>
> > D 1 unknown
> > .end
>
> Hmmmm.....   It would be interesting to see the schematic which
> produced this netlist.

I have attached it to this mail.

-r.

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