Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!oakhill!dover!waters From: waters@dover.sps.mot.com (Strawberry Jammer) Newsgroups: comp.lsi Subject: Re: EDIF Summary: List of sources for help (long) Message-ID: <1385@dover.sps.mot.com> Date: 31 May 89 21:45:55 GMT References: <1412@ncr-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM> Reply-To: waters@dover.UUCP (Strawberry Jammer) Organization: Hacker's haven Lines: 100 In article <1412@ncr-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM> mildredm@babel.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Mildred Magboo) writes: >I am currently working on a translator that will >convert a netlist file into an EDIF format. I >need to know if there is anybody out there who >can provide me assistance in the conversion >process. >The only reference material I have is the EDIF 2 0 0 >Standard reference book. Please send me e-mail if you >know anything about EDIF, particularly 'netlist' >view. This is a frequently asked question, so I will try to give you as many alternatives as I can. If you are going to be at the IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (Las Vagas, June 26), there will be an EIA/EDIF booth which will include rescource information as well as quite a few "live" demos. This year the theme is showing the range of production uses of EDIF by a wide range of CAD users/vendors. I am not on the organizing committee for this so I don't have the latest information, but the booth is a large one with some very ambitious plans. As in previous years ethernet/hardware is excpected to be the limiting factor in data exchanges, but you should see some exiting things happening. There is an EDIF tutorial as part of DAC which is intended as a "management overview" or "basic concepts" tutorial. Other resources: (1) EIA Standards Sales 2001 Eye Street, N.W. Washinton D.C. 20006 ANSI/EIA-548 Standard Reference Guide (which you say you have) The User Guide series, currently: Introduction to EDIF - overview and basic EDIF concepts EDIF Connectivity - Netlist and connections in EDIF Applications note: Using EDIF for Schematic Transfer (not yet published) EDIF Questions and Answers - compendium of official answers to implementors questions concerning interpretation and implementation of the standard. (2) EDIF User Group ****NEW ADDRESS**** P.O. Box 25542 Tempe, AZ 85285-5542 Sponsors the annual EDIF World User Group meeting (San Jose, Sept 11-14) Newsletter and announcements of interest to users and implementors. (3) University of Manchester Dept. of Computer Science Oxford Road Manchester, M13 9PL England Syntax and semantic checker, reader software Interpretation Question Coordinator (3) UC at Berkeley Cory Hall Berkeley CA, 94720 EDIF tools as part of their "CAD Tool Set" package. (4) Enginmeering DataXpress Inc. Suite 736 5 Town and Country Village San Jose, CA 95128-2026 EDIF Videotape tutorial (12 tapes of a 3 day in depth tutorial) -very thorough, intended to produce an "EDIF Expert" EDI Procedural Language interface to/from EDIF EDIF "starter kit" - includes a parser and numerous examples I suggest that you get a parser/syntax checker from one of the sources above, the tradeoff is really between commercial supported software and Public Domain software and depends on your goals. Write to the User Group to get an "information kit" (which duplicates some of the above). If possible, at least one person from your company should attend EDIF World and one of the tutorials. Obviously the published literature will be helpful as well. Good luck! Mike Waters - EDIF Technical Committee -- *Mike Waters AA4MW/7 waters@dover.sps.mot.com * Remember that whatever misfortune may be your lot, it could only be worse in Cleveland. -- National Lampoon, "Deteriorada"