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From: Stuart Brorson<sdb@c...>
Date: Wed Jan 28 18:34:24 CET 2004
Subject: [oc] Potentially awesome open-source idea
Hi Bill & gang --> On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 19:41, Bill Cox wrote:
[. . .Major discussion about a big open-source SoC builder . . .]
> I agree that it's going to be a big project. I've got two systems I can
> donate that might help: gnetman and OpenLPM. I might also be able to
> donate Verilog and VHDL readers and writers. Gnetman is a modern
> netlist database that is good for manipulating netlists.
I've played around with gnetman a little bit. Currently, it generates
SPICE netlists from schematics drawn using gEDA's gschem, which is
cool. I think it could use some closer integration with gschem, but
that is on the way (slowly). (It's up to gschem to accomodate
gnetlist, BTW.) Also, it would be nice to see gnetman
support other output netlists. It is certainly powerful enough to
generate them; it's only a matter of writing the code for it.
My reaction to the SoC builder this is: It sounds very interesting!
But it's also a big project. How will people be motivated to work on
it, besides doing it for fun? That is, how will it make money for the
software engineers working on the project, or the companies who employ
them? What's the business model? This is important, because without
the prospect of money, progress on such a large project will be
slooooooow.
Stuart
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