murf@oakhill.UUCP (Steve Murphy) (10/10/88)
Sorry to flood the world with what many would consider trivia. I'll hold off posting the next (and final) set till next week. Please, be patient, as there have been many requests for REALISTIC edif examples, and no one on the technical subcommittee really has the time to distribute example files via tapes to the world at large. The files aren't guaranteed valid EDIF because they come with special props defined by the Technical Subcommittee, and the style is also defined, in order to make EDIF implementable NOW. The next version of EDIF may well incorporate the things done now, but that's LATER. The files I'm sending out are REAL SCHEMATICS. Small ones, true, but enough should be there for most of the major vendors to put something up that will netlist from their graphics. Connectivity, graphics, the whole smear. Many people have been holding back working on EDIF until they see some data. Well, the data's coming, from just about every vendor. This is a peek at what it will be like. I promise I won't do this again, unless I feel demand sufficient. (Hopefully, within 6mo to a yr. there will be so many EDIF writers running out there that this will be unneccessary). Consider this a sort of 'seeding'. murf -- Steve Murphy, Motorola, Inc 6501 William Cannon Drive West, MD OE37 Austin, TX 78735 (512)440-2276 <WORLD>!oakhill!murf
waters@dover.uucp (Mike Waters) (10/11/88)
In article <1563@oakhill.UUCP> murf@oakhill.UUCP (Steve Murphy) writes: >The files aren't guaranteed valid EDIF because they come with special props >defined by the Technical Subcommittee, and the style is also defined, in order >to make EDIF implementable NOW. The next version of EDIF may well incorporate >the things done now, but that's LATER. Steve, I haven't had a chance to look at your files, nor at the draft of the User Guide/Proposal that you folks have done. Can we (ALL!) assume that these files conform to that proposal - less the standard errors and ommissions kinds of disclaimers of course. If thats true then it will help me for one in testing the proposal. Do these files relate to the 8 way vendor transfer we saw at Edif World? I am posting this since I think the answers would be of general interest to everyone. -- Mike Waters (for your EDIFication) Motorola SMART CAD Group - EDIF support Mesa, AZ ...!sun!sunburn!dover!waters OR moto@cad.Berkley.EDU
buzz@usm3b2.EDU (Justin Harlow) (10/12/88)
I am new to the network, but I believe there is a facility for putting copies of source code in a publicly accessible place. If it works for source code, it will work for EDIF. A lot of people are interested in looking at EDIF examoples, but why clog up the NEWS with the whole enchilada? Just announce that you put it in a common area, and those who care will go get a copy. Buzz Harlow National Semiconductor South Portland, ME "Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit!"