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Upverter now has Import and Export
- tonyarkles 15y agoThat 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!
- mwoodworth 15y agoThanks 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.
- compumike 15y agoHi Tony, is this your circuit http://upverter.com/tonyarkles/fc405a95ad5ac85c/basic-amp/ 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?
- tonyarkles 15y agoHi! 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.
- kanzure 15y agoThanks 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?
- mwoodworth 15y agowe are working on it, are you looking for export of previous version of full file, or the exporting of the diffs?
- namank 15y agoVery 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?
- mwoodworth 15y agoThanks, 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.
- namank 15y agoCool! Definitely going to be on the lookout for when you guys make your way back to Waterloo.
- blackguardx 15y agoElectronics 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.
- namank 15y agoSo 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.
- patrickyeon 15y agoWe 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