wire wrap cad software

[John Sosa]

Hello,

This question is to all those that prototype using wire wrapping.
Currently, I have a large design that I want to wire wrap, and have
done the all the CAD drawings in Orcad. (I generally do everything in
Orcad) The problem with this is that I don't really want to wire wrap
directly from the schematic. Also, I have heard from friends that
there used to be some software that converted netlists to a list of
wirewrap connections. Also, this software was intelligent enought to
not give more than three wraps per post, etc. Apperantly the software
gave a listing of the order and between what chips the wraps needed to
go. I have searched on Google using different search criteria, but
nothing.

So, any help locating an application that does this would be great.

Regards,
John

 

[Clarence]

"John Sosa" <john.sosa@seagate.com> wrote in message
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Hello,

This question is to all those that prototype using wire wrapping.
Currently, I have a large design that I want to wire wrap, and have
done the all the CAD drawings in Orcad. (I generally do everything in
Orcad) The problem with this is that I don't really want to wire wrap
directly from the schematic. Also, I have heard from friends that
there used to be some software that converted netlists to a list of
wirewrap connections. Also, this software was intelligent enough to
not give more than three wraps per post, etc. Apparently the software
gave a listing of the order and between what chips the wraps needed to
go. I have searched on Google using different search criteria, but
nothing.

So, any help locating an application that does this would be great.

Regards,
John

I haven't seen a Wire Wrap program in twenty years.
However if you use Ocad, the placement tolls will allow for getting an
efficient arrangement, and select the routing method which chains the
connections so there will never be more than two connections per point (Wrap)
and use the NET list to create a wire wrap list by editing it into a easy to
work with format and provide a check off box for each wire.