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by bandq 1591 days ago
Like a few other people have said, EDIF has existed for decades and it works and it's open.

As of late it seems to be a lot of re-invention of problems that have been solved, except there's some use of JSON, Python, etc. It feels like people solving problems they find interesting rather than solving problems that are necessary.
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bandq 1590 days ago
Since I was curious myself to see what was out there for EDIF, I stumbled upon this -- an open-source C++ library to read/write EDIF (I haven't used the library nor do I have any affiliation with the project):

http://torc-isi.github.io/torc/index.html

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nudgeee 1590 days ago
Indeed, in the mid 2000s I worked on building tool flows in a multi-vendor environment with EDIF as the common netlist format. It worked fairly OK, with some tweaking.

I synthesized complex modules to EDIF/NGC using Synopsys Design Compiler, Xilinx XST and Mentor Precision and stitched them together via NGDbuild targeting Virtex 4 FPGAs.

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