On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 07:32:23PM +0200, Stephan Boettcher wrote: > I usually have hierarchical schematics with multiple instances of the > same subcircuits referenced from the main page. The deepest until now > were three layers of hierarchy.
I make do with two, but that's how I work also. > All the cutting, sed-ing and pasting of the subcircuits to multiple > instances, with replication of later changes on all copies is pretty > unflexible. Agree 100%. > Hierarchical sub-cells (like with ASIC layouts) would allow to make and > maintain such circuits much easier. > > What I am asking for here is, when you now talk about layout > zones/partitions/whatever it's called in the end, please consider the > application of the concept for this kind of hierarchy. Maybe the new > concepts can be easily applied for that as well, with a little vision > into that direction. > > Maybe it is trivial to allow multiple copies of a layout zone on a > board, with a common netname/refdes prefix substituted on the copies. > When you edit the layout of any copy, all instances follow the change. I don't know about the "trivial" adjective, but I assert that's the goal, and would give me (and I suspect many others) a dramatic improvement in productivity and usability. The old "get an electic circular saw after years of only using a hand saw" analogy. > My eagle-using colleagues envy me for the hierarchical schematics that I > can draw in gschem. I do this in xcircuit, but at some point I may move to gschem. My biggest motivation, believe it or not, will be the better BOM support. - Larry _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
