Re: gEDA: Re: "FREE" CPLD fitter tools

[Stephen Williams <steve-at-NOSPAMicarus_dot_com>]

graham@belegost.mit.edu said:
>  ftp://opencollector.org/pub/collector/gpal_07112000.tar.gz 

Oh, Kay. Now we're cooking with gas. What I'm missing is as API that
gets me the basic structure characteristics of the device.

For pldedit, I need the width (number of inputs) of the term matrix and
the number of terms for each of the macrocells. I also need to be able
to generate labels for the input columns, so I need some sort of access
to that information.

And on the other end, there is synthesis. I am thinking that I want to
do the basic fitting myself, because I expect the user to want to assign
specific pins. I can use $attribute to attach pin attributes to nets,
and that determines the macrocell, and hence the required fuses.

So I need access to enough information that I can do all that.

Once all this is happening, I'm also going to want to make nice, neat
packages so that users can run a few rpm -i commands and start compiling
PLDs.
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