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Upverter now has Import and Export

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34 pointsmwoodworth13 comments

That is a very cool tool. Not to complain too much, but the first design I tried was a simple differential amp (current source, diff pair, current mirror), and the lack of a "mirror part" control ended up making for pretty sloppy layout (although the auto-route to avoid labels stuff is pretty neat).

Good job!

Hi Tony, is this your circuit http://upverter.com/tonyarkles/fc405a95ad5ac85c/basic-amp/ ? I see the Q1/Q2 current mirror. The rest doesn't look quite finished here, but perhaps I'm not seeing the right revision. Curious to know if you were trying to draw it from memory/intuition, or trying to put an existing schematic into the tool?

Hi! Yes, that's the one. It certainly isn't finished, and yes, I was drawing it from memory just to get a feel for the tool.

Thanks tonyarkles, we thought that doing a rotate twice would solve that, but with op-amps a mirror might look better, I will add it to our to-do list.

Very NICE! I've heard about you guys but never tried...yet!

A question if I may: Any particular reason for calling yourselves a hardware company? Wouldn't electronics be more appropriate and familiar to the people checking you out?

Electronics and hardware are the same thing. I'm a hardware engineer and I design electronics. The term hardware could also be used to describe things like nuts and bolts but but that isn't a common usage in engineering.

So is the guy I'm working with but he is a couple of layers above the transistors...more into FPGA/Systems/Logic CAD.

I understand your point; only wondering why use 'hardware' and not 'electronics' - from a business development perspective. Perhaps it points to future plans.

We real hardware people don't take too kindly to FPGA types declaring themselves to be hardware people. They're really only initializing a stinkin' big pile of look-up tables anyway.

You get to be hardware when you use a soldering iron :P

Gett there...slowly but surely!!

Thanks,

We are using hardware because we are trying to enable making. Electronics is really near to our hearts, and a really big part of the way that we "make", so this is where we are starting.

Cool! Definitely going to be on the lookout for when you guys make your way back to Waterloo.

Thanks for adding these features, I know a lot of people were requesting them.

Does this mean your version control system will soon be exporting and importing, too?

we are working on it, are you looking for export of previous version of full file, or the exporting of the diffs?

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