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Google Summer of Code 2015 #193

Closed ra3xdh closed 9 years ago

ra3xdh commented 9 years ago

Guilherme and I find useful for Qucs to take a part at Google Summer of Code 2015 https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2015 . Here you can discuss this point. What is your opinion on GSOC-2015? Should we take a part here?

Here may be a list of our ideas for GSOC-2015 https://github.com/ra3xdh/qucs/wiki/Qucs-GSOC-2015. If you find GSOC-2015 useful for us I will move it to main Qucs Wiki. You can add or remove ideas from this ideas page.

ra3xdh commented 9 years ago

There is no comments on GSOC-2015. It seems nobody finds GSOC-2015 harmful for Qucs. So I will continue with our proposal for GSOC-2015. I put a draft of proposal and ideas list at github repo https://github.com/ra3xdh/qucs-gsoc2015 . You can send me pull request if you have suggestions or your own ideas. Please read carefully sections concerning mentors, students, and ideas list.

Google needs Administrator from our organization. Administrator will be responsible for contacts with Google. Guilherme cannot be our Administrator at GSOC-2015. There was no people that wish to be GSOC-admin. For this reason I propose myself as GSOC-2015 admin candidate. If you have another candidate you can propose him at comments here. You can also propose your own mentor candidates.

ra3xdh commented 9 years ago

I have mixed feelings on Simulator-->PCB editor link. Currently I am lecturer at University. Previously I worked during seven years as electronics engineer. My point of view is based on my experience as designer of electronic equipment. Not all components on PCB could be simulated (for example Microcontrollers (MCU), Complex ICs, FPGAs, etc.) and these components ofted also should not be simulated. So it will require exclude them from simulation. It's better split your device to subcircuits and simulate them. Whole circuit on PCB requires a long time to simulate it and loads computer. So it is often unable to transfer the whole netlist from simulator to PCB. Only a very simple circuits could be fully simulated. Other circuits requires splitting. And I don't see any useful in integration of PCB editor in Qucs. Deep integration with PCB design tools is also useless. It is just my opinion based on my experience.

You mentioned Proteus. I used it in production. It allows to simulate only a very limited functionality of circuits. Many MCU circuits work fine on physical board and cannot be simulated with Proteus . Only AVR support in Proteus seems fine.

I suggest the following way. We can include KiCAD symbol or KiCAD footprint sections in our component library or some reference or KiCAD library. Also we can add Package (for example TO-220, TO-95, TO-5, etc.) property for single not-library components. Also we need to implement Export to KiCAD netlist feature. This feature will be useful. You can prepare your proposal. There was some similar projects on Github https://github.com/Valber/qucs2kicad. This project seems to be abandoned but you can use it as startpoint.

ra3xdh commented 9 years ago

I registered Qucs for GSOC-2015. I assigned yourself as administrator. Now we need one person as backup administrator. This person should register at https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2015 till 20 February 7:00PM (UTC). I we cannot provide backup administrator, our application will be rejected.

ra3xdh commented 9 years ago

Now our application process is completed. We will see result on March 2.

ra3xdh commented 9 years ago

Our application for GSOC-2015 was rejected.