Re: gEDA-dev: Numerical analysis of circuit boards

[Igor2 <igor2-at-NOSPAMinno_dot_bme_dot_hu>]

On Sat, 26 Aug 2006, Tomaz Solc wrote:

>Hi everyone
>
>I'm working on a piece of software that can numerically calculate
>various electrical properties of traces on a printed circuit board.
>Currently it is able to calculate capacitances between traces and output
>them in a SPICE-friendly form that can for example be added to the
>circuit simulation. It can also calculate peak electrical field values
>and trace resistances (although that is a bit inefficient at the
>moment). It may also be possible to calculate inductance and
>transmission line parameters with some modification, but I haven't
>looked into that yet.
>
>The code is currently good enough for my purposes and not quite ready
>for a release. However if anyone is interested in a tool like this, I'm
>prepared to clean it up a bit, write some more documentation and release
>it under GPL.
>
>I'm guessing that with some added scripting capabilities (I'm thinking
>about libguile) this may in time become a general-purpose tool for
>numerically evaluating boards drawn with PCB.

If it's written in C and you release it under the GPL, I could add
scripting to it using GPMI. With GPMI the user could choose from 8
different languages to script the stuff in. 

bye

Igor2



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