Man, I am having a really good experience with the circuit design of a laser controller. I have been using <A HREF = "http://www.cadsoftusa.com/">eagle</A> software which is rock solid. I used it to output a description of all the wire <a href = "http://nilno.com/laser_dir/pin_list.txt">networks</A>. I wrote a perl program that parsed the wire networks file from Eagle, and combined it with the locations of the chip positions on my wire wrap board. The perl program outputs a file of the <a href = "http://nilno.com/laser_dir/wire_wrap.txt">networks</A> as wirewrap locations on my board, and I had the same program create a <A HREF = "http://nilno.com/laser_dir/wire_wrap.pdf">drawing</A> that shows the chips.
This <A HREF = "http://nilno.com/laser_dir/laser_control.sch">file</A> is the eagle formatted file. Remember, the software is free. Eagle writes eps files, which I converted to <A HREF = "http://nilno.com/laser_dir/schematic.pdf">pdf</A> using illustrator.
The blue tape marks are placeholders for chip positions which correspond to the boxes in the <A HREF = "http://nilno.com/laser_dir/wire_wrap.pdf">drawing</A>.
I know, its not much to look at, I have yet to actually wire the damn thing. I'll start on that tonight. But as far as software support goes, these are good times.
Man, I am having a really good experience with the circuit design of a laser controller. I have been using eagle software which is rock solid. I used it to output a description of all the wire networks. I wrote a perl program that parsed the wire networks file from Eagle, and combined it with the locations of the chip positions on my wire wrap board. The perl program outputs a file of the [URL=http://nilno.com/laser_dir/wire_wrap.txt]networks[URL] as wirewrap locations on my board, and I had the same program create a [URL=http://nilno.com/laser_dir/wire_wrap.pdf]drawing[URL] that shows the chips.
This [URL=http://nilno.com/laser_dir/laser_control.sch]file[URL] is the eagle formatted file. Remember, the software is free. Eagle writes eps files, which I converted to [URL=http://nilno.com/laser_dir/schematic.pdf]pdf[URL] using illustrator.
The blue tape marks are placeholders for chip positions which correspond to the boxes in the [URL=http://nilno.com/laser_dir/wire_wrap.pdf]drawing[URL].
I know, its not much to look at, I have yet to actually wire the damn thing. I'll start on that tonight. But as far as software support goes, these are good times.
Electronics development going well
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