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PCB Design Language: A programming way to design schematics.
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SKiDL? #24

Closed brainstorm closed 4 years ago

brainstorm commented 4 years ago

Isn't this software having a major overlap with SKiDL?:

https://github.com/xesscorp/skidl

/cc @xesscorp, @devbisme

amstan commented 4 years ago

Yes, it does have major overlap. I have seen skidl when I started work on this.

I didn't like the verbosity of skidl:

from skidl import *

# Create input & output voltages and ground reference.
vin, vout, gnd = Net('VI'), Net('VO'), Net('GND')

# Create two resistors.
r1, r2 = 2 * Part("Device", 'R', TEMPLATE, footprint='805')
r1.value = '1K'
r2.value = '500'

# Connect the nets and resistors.
vin += r1[1]
gnd += r2[2]
vout += r1[2], r2[1]

Turns into this for pcbdl:

from pcbdl import *

# new syntax as of 2 days ago
Net("VI") ^ R("1k", package='805') ^ Net("VO") ^ R("500", package="805") ^ Net("GND") 

# older syntax
Net("VO") << (
    R("1k", package='805', to=Net("VI")),
    R("500", package="805", to=Net("GND")),
)

These files should be short and to the point, without boilerplate. When placing a resistor down, I shouldn't really care about anything about it's value and where it goes, that shouldn't need more than a few characters. These "schematics" are supposed to be friendly to non programmers.

amstan commented 4 years ago

Let me know if you have any more questions.