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I'd love to see a schematic exported or even shown as you press simulate (you clearly have it the components and links in memory somewhere to do the simulation). This would be great for debugging.
Both clashlang: https://clash-lang.org/
And Hardcaml: https://github.com/janestreet/hardcaml
have personally fueled my interest in hardware.
Dan Luu speaks eloquently and at length about how better options are needed for logic design. I would recommend both of the above to the enthusiastic novice.
This looks amazing and some of you really need to stop yelling at clouds. Not everything needs to be “boring and functional”, it’s ok for things to be just fun.
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I recently came across a reference manual for an SoC that came in at over 24,000 pages - a new personal record. The tools for working with such large PDFs generally suck.
I'd be so happy with a 24,000 page PDF, cause then at least you know where too look, and you can the search tool. I programme Siemens hardware and the docs I need are spread out over many tens of PDFs (of 100-1500 pages). I haven't found a proper tool than can let me search and view all this documentation properly. Best I found is ripgrep with some PDF extension to search which document I need, and then use SumatraPD…
Schematics are for understanding what a circuit does. Breadboards are for prototyping small low-speed circuits. Veroboard is for prototyping larger medium-speed circuits. Gerbers & a PCB are for production and for prototyping large or high-speed circuits. If the tool could automatically make a 3D breadboard view from a schematic, it'd be pretty neat for beginners. If the tool warned you when the normal parasitic capa…
Reminds me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yR9TweWf3w8 Sine oscillator (no ICs), 10K load, 24+GHz on a breadboard.
This illustrates a problem with many "modern" applications. My first impression: "Oh, that looks nice. Looks like in real life". Then I tried using it and found that it is clunky and slow to the point it is barely usable and I would much faster build the real circuit on a real breadboard instead.