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Why not just have the EDA tools understand (or have plugins that do) how version control systems work and provide diff'ing abilities? The EDA tool would have t
by bradfa 15y ago
Why not just have the EDA tools understand (or have plugins that do) how version control systems work and provide diff'ing abilities? The EDA tool would have to provide the diff'ing ability but have API hooks for interfacing with version control systems.
LabVIEW can do diffs and it integrates with version control systems. LabVIEW is almost completely visual and it'll show you what changed between versions if you ask.
- jevinskie 15y agoBecause EDA tools and their authors are stuck in a 1990s mentality. Usability outside of improved autorouters has not significantly improved in many years. I fear that the tool authors just don't "get" the development processes that have emerged in the last 20 years.
- bradfa 15y agoThere's some other avenues that EDA tools also aren't taking that could be great market opportunities for some of the small to mid-range players to capitalize on. Besides just modern version control systems, most big companies have internal teams to manage schematic symbols and layout footprints for all parts they use. There's outrageous duplication of effort going on. If there was a "cloud" provider who could do this for you, it'd cost each company less and the service could be better. There'd have to be customization and an API so each company could customize their access and data stored, but that's easier than actually selling this idea :)