Larry Doolittle wrote: > On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 05:13:45PM -0600, John Griessen wrote: >> gene wrote: >>>> When you lay out your board you get this fun issue that your refdes >>>> for a 0402 resistor is about 5 miles long. >>> Really? I haven't tried this yet - but are you saying the refdes gets >>> prefixed with the path? It makes sense for the nets, but not the refdes. >> The path in front is what makes each refdes unique and each refdes is the >> whole path to a symbol. If you present a simpler view it just means you >> are hiding the complexity somewhere, >> and at this point, gschem/gnetlist aren't hiding anything. > > Right. This is a prime example of the tools being expert-friendly. > It's no sweat for someone like me to add a perl script to the > processing chain to rename the resistors in a consistent and > design-appropriate fashion. > > I would even argue that this is a common enough task that one > of us should generalize and publish our internal scripts so that > non-programmers can also work like this. Adding complexity > to the existing tools, however, is probably a mistake. At most, > they should have hooks to handle pre/post processing programs. > For myself, I will always use a Makefile for that purpose. > > - Larry > So you write a script to massage the netlist?
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