<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html> <head> <title></title> <link rel="stylesheet" media="screen" type="text/css" href="./style.css" /> <link rel="stylesheet" media="screen" type="text/css" href="./design.css" /> <link rel="stylesheet" media="print" type="text/css" href="./print.css" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> </head> <body> <div class="table sectionedit2146"><table class="inline"> <tr class="row0"> <td class="col0 leftalign"> « <a href="geda-gnetlist_ug.html" class="wikilink1" title="geda-gnetlist_ug.html">Contents</a> </td><td class="col1 centeralign"> <strong><a href="geda-gnetlist_ug.html" class="wikilink1" title="geda-gnetlist_ug.html">gEDA gnetlist User Guide</a></strong> </td><td class="col2 rightalign"> <a href="geda-gnetlist_ug-running_gnetlist.html" class="wikilink1" title="geda-gnetlist_ug-running_gnetlist.html">Running gnetlist</a> » </td> </tr> </table></div> <!-- EDIT2146 TABLE [1-156] --> <h2 class="sectionedit2147"><a name="introduction" id="introduction">Introduction</a></h2> <div class="level2"> <p> <strong>gnetlist</strong> is a <em>netlisting</em> tool, and is part of the <a href="geda-faq.html" class="wikilink1" title="geda-faq.html">gEDA (GPL Electronic Design Automation)</a> toolset. It is used to extract information about electronic components and the connections between them from <em>schematic diagrams</em>, which describe the logical structure of an circuit. gnetlist outputs the <em>netlist</em> in a variety of formats that can be automatically processed by other tools, such as printed circuit board (PCB) layout tools or circuit simulators. </p> </div> <!-- EDIT2147 SECTION "Introduction" [169-676] --> <h3 class="sectionedit2148"><a name="reading_this_guide" id="reading_this_guide">Reading this guide</a></h3> <div class="level3"> <p> Several typographical conventions are used in this guide to indicate different concepts. </p> <ul> <li class="level1"><div class="li"> When key terms or concepts are introduced, an <em>italic typeface</em> is used. For example, “gnetlist accepts a number of <em>command-line arguments</em>.”</div> </li> <li class="level1"><div class="li"> Text you might type in a text editor or at a command line is indicated using a <code>fixed space typeface</code>. For example, “The <code>–list-backends</code> option to gnetlist prints a list of installed netlist backends.”</div> </li> </ul> </div> <!-- EDIT2148 SECTION "Reading this guide" [677-1162] --> <h3 class="sectionedit2149"><a name="getting_additional_help" id="getting_additional_help">Getting additional help</a></h3> <div class="level3"> <p> If you have a question about using gnetlist, you may wish to send a message to one of the gEDA <a href="geda-mailinglists.html" class="wikilink1" title="geda-mailinglists.html">mailing lists</a>. Alternatively, you can ask your question on the <a href="https://answers.launchpad.net/geda" class="urlextern" title="https://answers.launchpad.net/geda" rel="nofollow">geda Launchpad page</a>, and one of the developers will try to answer it for you. </p> <p> If you think you have found a bug in gnetlist, please file a bug report in <a href="http://bugs.launchpad.net/geda" class="urlextern" title="http://bugs.launchpad.net/geda" rel="nofollow">the Launchpad bug tracker</a>. Please add the tag “gnetlist”. It will help the developers to fix your problem quickly if you can describe in detail how to reproduce the bug. </p> </div> <!-- EDIT2149 SECTION "Getting additional help" [1163-] --></body> </html>