Re: Summer of code: Gschem analysis for parsing

>On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 11:26 PM, al davis <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > On Tuesday 22 May 2012, [email protected] wrote:
> > > One nuisance point I just realized ......  A gschem sch
> > > file has no notion of connectivity.  It comes from the
> > > extraction.  To do it correctly, you need the actual
> > > symbols.  That's bad, but we need to deal with it.
> >
> > Yes, one suggestion is to parse the standard library of
> > symbols initially at the time of compilation and save
> > required information in an easily (fast) accessible format
> > (array?). The required information may the position of pins
> > and some attributes like graphical etc.
>
> That doesn't work because the symbols can be changed at any
> time.  The compiled code can know nothing about specific
> symbols.

In that case, then it would be better to go through the symbol files
at run-time and get the pin placement information in the symbols.
Symbols can be user's own or from the standard library.

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Savant Krishna | Junior Undergraduate | Electrical Engineering | IIT Bombay