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Re: gEDA-dev: Last call for input on SOW for Linux Fund....


On Dec 2, 2008, at 8:06 PM, Dan McMahill wrote:

> John Doty wrote:
>> On Dec 2, 2008, at 11:34 AM, al davis wrote:
>>
>>> On Tuesday 02 December 2008, John Doty wrote:
>>>> On the other hand, we already have in gEDA a simple,
>>>> flexible,   concrete, well-documented format for graphics,
>>>> attributes, and netlist information: the schematic format. It
>>>> can even represent pure netlists without actual graphics. Why
>>>> not identify limitations of that format and enhance it?
>>> Nice joke.
>>>
>>
>> Not a joke at all. You are invited to post pointers to clear, concise
>> documentation for a better candidate. But please nothing more like
>> that sales brochure disguised as a Verilog-AMS text you induced me to
>> buy...
>
> I'm sorry you don't like that book and that you haven't found a use  
> for
> Verilog-A or Verilog-AMS.  My experience has been that Verilog-A has
> been critical for many many real life simulation problems.  I'm  
> speaking
> as one who has written thousands of lines of Verilog-A code to solve
> real problems.
>
> I'll reiterate an assertion I made earlier.  One of the big current
> challenges with those two tools is you can't get access currently to
> either without spending a lot of money.

But it seems that you cannot even penetrate the fog of hype around  
them without spending both a lot of time and money. I have no doubt  
that in the hands of specialists these tools are very useful. But  
such specialists can't generally comprehend what, say, an  
astrophysicist needs from a nondispersive x-ray spectrometer design.  
So, the astrophysicist can't get the job done himself (the fog  
surrounding the tool's capabilities is too thick), nor can he get a  
specialist to do the design.

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




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