<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Do you have any examples of declarative PCB design in industry?<div><br><div>I’m curious about what software tools folks are using for this kind of design;</div><div>in my experience, most hardware companies are using Altium or similar.<div><div><br></div><div>-Matt<br><div><br></div><div><div><div>On Nov 11, 2015, at 3:09 PM, Ilia Lebedev <<a href="mailto:ilebedev@mit.edu">ilebedev@mit.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">Setting aside the quality of opencores, which is mainly an FPGA circuit repository, Board-level circuits are *absolutely* designed via declarative languages often in order to remain maintainable. There is a wealth of graphical user interfaces, and one-off boards make great use of them, but this is by no means a summary of the entire field of PCB design :|</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 3:06 PM Bryan Bishop <<a href="mailto:kanzure@gmail.com">kanzure@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 12:43 PM, Nancy Ouyang <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nancy.ouyang@gmail.com" target="_blank">nancy.ouyang@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Very few people seem to argue for text-based circuit-board design, and I only know of one person who designs circuits that way.<div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra">There's millions of lines of source code written in Verilog/VHDL available on github, or <a href="http://opencores.org/" target="_blank">http://opencores.org/</a> is an interesting starting point.</div></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div><br></div><div>- Bryan<br><a href="http://heybryan.org/" target="_blank">http://heybryan.org/</a><br>1 512 203 0507</div>
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