gEDA-user: trying to understand technology rendering

[Charlls Quarra <charlls_quarra@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 Hi,
 
 I'm a newbie to the electronic design sport and im
hoping to use some gEDA tools to design small circuits
which i may be able to implement myself with
of-the-shelf components.
 
 I've been reading about verilog and VHDL and
synthesis and i've done small examples which seemingly
synthesize well with Icarus.
 
 The thing i'm confused is with the target library
concept. I imagine that one wants a description of a
set of real solid-state components that the compiler
reads and uses to compose the synthesis in a way that
optimizes a number of possible constraints. But if one
would want to synthesize into target technology with
elements like these:
 
http://geda.seul.org/tools/symbols/library/index.html
 
 where do you find the associated target libraries for
these elements? are there on the public domain? can
Icarus synthesize to a custom-written technology
library that includes available components, or this
support must be hardcoded into Icarus for each
library?
 If i get some specs for some vendor hardware
component , how do you translate it into a target
library? 


 Sorry for all the super trivial questions, cheers all


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