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Re: KiCad And Quces

 

Hi all,
Can anybody please tell me that which tool i'll be using using to analyze
the source code of KiCad ?

Your assistance will be highly appreciated.

Regards,
Babar Malik.

Best Regards,
Muhammad Babar Malik
Namal College Mianwali
An Associate College of University of Bradford

On 16 January 2018 at 23:27, Dan Weatherill <dan.weatherill@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> gnucap would also be very nice, especially for mixed signal stuff.
> That said my impression of it is that its development is not especially
> active
> at the moment.
>
> Dan W
>
>
> On Tuesday, 16 January 2018 09:22:49 GMT Babar Malik wrote:
> > Thanks a lot. As far as my background knowledge is concerned, I am
> familiar
> > with C++ but I didn't executed any project which includes a complete
> > software development.
> >
> > Babar
> >
> > Best Regards,
> > Muhammad Babar Malik
> > Namal College Mianwali
> > An Associate College of University of Bradford
> >
> > On 16 January 2018 at 13:38, Christian Gagneraud <chgans@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > > CC Qucs's maintainer, please feel free to extend.
> > >
> > > On 16 January 2018 at 21:14, Babar Malik <babarnamal@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > I am much more interested to integrate Kicad and Qucs,  and the first
> > >
> > > step
> > >
> > > > towards this would be to study the source code of Kicad from scratch.
> > > > Can
> > > > you please help me regarding to this ? Please guide me from where I
> > >
> > > should
> > >
> > > > take first step?
> > > > your help will be highly appreciated.
> > >
> > > Hi Babar, (Please keep mailing list(s) posted)
> > >
> > > Integrating KiCAD and Qucs can be done at several levels.
> > > Both projects are written in C++, but one uses WxWidgets, while the
> > > other is using Qt (3, 4, but not 5).
> > > So maybe a possible approach would be to try to integrate qucsator
> > > (the core simulation engine) with KiCAD's GUI.
> > > That is: do not try to merge/join them at C++ level, but at process
> level.
> > > Please also note that Qucs has some friendly forks that attempts to
> > > consolidate alternative simulation engines (ngspice, xyce, gnucap,
> > > spice opus, ...)
> > >
> > > See eg.: https://qucs-help.readthedocs.io/en/spice4qucs/BasSim.html
> > >
> > > I have no authority in any of the aforementioned projects, but may I
> > > suggest to contact the developer mailing of each project.
> > > Have a look at each project git repo, and don't hesitate to ask
> > > question on respective mailing lists.
> > >
> > > Some starting points:
> > > https://github.com/Qucs
> > > https://ra3xdh.github.io/
> > > https://github.com/KiCad
> > > https://savannah.gnu.org/git/?group=gnucap
> > > https://github.com/Qucs/gnucsator
> > >
> > > As I said, if you want to integrate qucs and KiCAD, you might want to
> > > focus on using qucsator/gnucsator as simulation backend(s) in KiCAD
> > >
> > > Don't feel overwhelmed, dive in and ask! ;)
> > >
> > > What's your background? What are your skills and experience? It might
> > > be useful to present yourself so that community members can understand
> > > where you're coming from and how to help you to achieve your goals.
> > >
> > > Chris
>
>
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