Re: Netnames in Gnucap

On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 10:25:57AM -0400, Al Davis wrote:
> On Saturday 30 October 2004 09:40 am, Stuart Brorson wrote:
> > One of the problems I've had with Gnucap in the past is that
> > almost all my netlists cause it to barf.  A major reason is
> > that I have lots of named nets in my designs, whereas it
> > looks to me like Gnucap only tolerates numbered nets (a la
> > old-time SPICE).
> 
> If you do ".option namednodes" it will take named nodes.
[snip]

> The reason it is undocumented and off by default is that some 
> things don't work in nasty ways, and I will probably remove the 
> option and make it named nodes always.  The option is there as 
> a development aid, so the old still works while the new is 
> being developed.
[snip]
 
> really does need to remain int internally.  The current scheme 
> is not as efficient as it should be.  The way to handle it is 
> to map name to number on readin, and number to name on 
> printout.  The functions are there.  It is just a matter of 
> using it where it needs to be used.  It's actually almost done.
[snip]
 
Any progress on this?  I was going to try out gnucap for something
the other day where I had a netlist from a different tool (spectre)
and every single node is named, not numbered.

-Dan

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