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Text-based schematics?

neuromodulator
neuromodulator over 1 year ago

I frequently end up spending a lot of time trying to make my schematics look nice. There's the whole dilemma of when to wire pins and when to just label them. Then of course, you must also figure out the best way to organize everything, where to position the components and when to hierarchize parts. Also, creating new symbols many times requires much more than drawing a box with pins, and can also consume a fair amount of time. This kinda reminds me of LABview, where lot of time is spent on rearranging nodes and wires, when ideally you would want to focus on the logic itself. It feels like there should be a more efficient way to do all this. Maybe using some standardized language? What do you think?

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  • dougw
    dougw over 1 year ago +4
    I think of E-CAD as "word processors" for electronic design and I have my own conventions to make schematics "readable". I can't imagine a text base description language that would be as clear or readable…
  • shabaz
    shabaz over 1 year ago +2
    That's a natural desire to make diagramming more efficient : ) (I guess you don't mean HDLs, since the output from them usually you wouldn't want to convert down to a schematic more detailed than a block…
  • michaelkellett
    michaelkellett over 1 year ago in reply to dang74 +1
    I find the interconnect in HDLs completely incomprehensible. So I use a block diagram editor at the top level to hang all the blocks together but I find the HDL much better at describing the logic. …
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  • wolfgangfriedrich
    wolfgangfriedrich over 1 year ago

    There are 2 commercial "solutions", their websites are full of BS bingo probably for VC reasons.

    https://www.jitx.com/

    Code to Electronics - atopile

    And there is a free Python module

    https://devbisme.github.io/skidl/

    None of those are able to explain the problem they are trying to solve. 

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  • wolfgangfriedrich
    wolfgangfriedrich over 1 year ago

    There are 2 commercial "solutions", their websites are full of BS bingo probably for VC reasons.

    https://www.jitx.com/

    Code to Electronics - atopile

    And there is a free Python module

    https://devbisme.github.io/skidl/

    None of those are able to explain the problem they are trying to solve. 

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