On Tue, 2011-05-24 at 15:24 +0900, John Doty wrote: > On May 24, 2011, at 2:43 PM, DJ Delorie wrote: > I also use pins2gsch a lot for connector maps: maintaining connectors > as drawings is a pain, and not very illuminating, I think. In this > case, the master is the .tsv that defines the map, not the .sch that's > derived from it. I used this for the CCD driver board whose picture I > posted earlier, and I'm really glad I did: the folks on the other > sides of the interfaces kept changing pin assignments, and a table is > much easier to fix than a drawing. > So, already, for me the schematics themselves don't completely define > a design, at least in my "big project" flows. It has been my wish for some time that a netlist / BOM type input file becomes more "first class" within gEDA. Net lists / BOM are the about the most fundamental piece of data within an EDA tool. Schematics are just one way of inputting that, and PCB layouts are just one way of embodying it. It seems un-warranted to make a schematic file from a data-table when the end output is just the data-table in a different format. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) Tel: +44 (0)1223 748328 - (Shared lab phone, ask for me)
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