> I was thinking of the example of the automatic mapping, like knowing > that something should be an analog ground. > > maybe something like an attribute > > GND|analog_ground=7 > > GND is analog_ground
Perhaps the default is to combine pins with the same names, but I'd rather not try to guess what they should be connected to - and neither should the symbol. A project-wide rule about it would be useful, though. It would be nice for the netlister to finally understand about different nets being connected together, though, like GND and AGND. > A package is a footprint and a mapping, how will you cope with parts > with the same footprint and different pinouts? These parts exist, but > I don't have a particular example on the top of my head A component is a footprint, mapping, and various other attributes. Different components have different mappings. Different components have different packages. A good example is linear regulators - +5 and +3.3 often have two pins swapped, but no other differences in symbol or footprint. So if you've gotten down to a linear regulator in TO-220, you'd still have to make some choices to get it specific enough for the sch->pcb flow to succeed. _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
