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<h2>XSCHEM IS</h2>
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2022-06-25 10:04:27 +02:00
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<li>A Free OSS small project, follows the UNIX KISS philosophy. ~65K SLOC.</li>
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<li>A Digital / Analog / Mixed mode circuit schematic editor.</li>
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<li>A hierarchical design tool: wrap (parametric) sub-blocks into symbols and use them multiple times.</li>
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<li>Has syntax for vector nets (bus notation) like DATA[7:0], WORD[7:0,15:8] as well as vector
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instance placements like Xinv[7:0], to handle repetitive components.</li>
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<li>Fast: Performance is important. Editing a schematic with 100K instances MUST not be a problem.</li>
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<li>Xschem knows the connectivity. Netlist build is embedded in the core.</li>
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<li>Verilog, VHDL, Spice, tEDAx netlist backends. Adding another backend is not difficult.</li>
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<li>Intensive and time consuming computations all done in pure C.</li>
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<li>Tcl-tk used for GUI and scripting language. Direct Xlib drawing.</li>
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<li>Netlist extraction must be instant (<500ms) on small to medium designs.</li>
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<h2>XSCHEM IS NOT</h2>
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<li>Huge. Depends on a very limited number of libraries. 63k SLOC</li>
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<li>Using binary formats for storing data. Everything is ASCII and in documented format.</li>
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<li>A Gtk or Qt project. Xschem will not bitrot over time due to changed library APIs.
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<li>A layout tool, although the graphical engine was designed to support layout as well.</li>
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<li>A circuit simulator.</li>
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<li>Super easy to use: there is a learning curve.</li>
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<li>A memory hog: XSCHEM with a medium design loaded requires 54M virtual memory, 24M resident set.
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A full chip design can be handled with a 1GB RAM system and low end processor.
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<li>A C++, C99, C11 project: all code is ANSI-C C89, works on old Solaris, Irix machines, compiles on 32bit, 64 bit and on armhf.
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