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Subject:	Re: [geda-user] Any good repository for datasheets in pdf out there?
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On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 1:17 AM, Hagen SANKOWSKI
<hsank AT nospam DOT chipforge DOT org> wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I am currently set up a project just to do the same - and even a little bit
> more.
>
> My proposal is to set up a 'google-like' OSHW search enginge, which chaches
> - original data sheets in PDF, PS
> - models (spice, IBIS, HDL, BSDL, ..)
> - symboles and footprints (geda, kicad)
> - OSHW schematics etc.
>
>
> All findings should be referenced to the original, hashed by MD5/SHA2 and
> tagged
> w/ date/location/license.
>
> In the beginning it seems to be a lot of hand crafts work, but I plan to do
> it more sophisticated and automated (wget, rsync, ...)
>
> I'd planned to spread my proposal at FOSDEM 'cause I am a Chip Designer and
> not
> involved in SW.
>
> Regards,
> Hagen.
>

I expect you'll find that almost all datasheets and spice models don't
come with a license that permits redistribution.  And if you contact
the vendors you'll be met with, at best, blank stares.  You might want
to take a look at spicelib.  It works around the license problem by
downloading models directly from vendors' websites.  Then it patches
them to make them work with gnucap and ngspice (many vendors' models
don't work with all spice implementations, and some don't work with
any).  Spicelib doesn't solve the retention problem, of course; a
vendor can still disappear a model from the internet.  But at least
it's legal.

http://www.h-renrew.de/h/spicelib/doc/index.html

-Alan

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