Hi Ales -- > [snip] > >Ales: > >May be we can put those symbols to the gEDA library page as well. > > I will put them into the next release. I might have to rename > them though (put a -1 or -2 at the end of them symbol). Thank you for > the symbols.
Just out of curiosity: We discussed allowing "source" attributes built into symbols to be promoted (i.e. displayed) in gschem. (They are currently discarded.) Have you had any further thoughts about this for the next release? The advantage to this is that specialized SPICE symbols for chip design (like those above) can be hardcoded to point to subcircuits. This will facilitate construction of hierarchical schematics. Right now you if you have a SPICE symbol which you want point to a subcircuit, and you want to instantiate it many times, you have to laboriously attach the attribute to each symbol in gschem. It would be better if it came with the attribute already attached, and allowed you to edit it in gschem if desired. Actually, allowing attachment of certain attributes like "model-name" and "file" at the symbol level would be a good thing for SPICE since you could build pointers to the SPICE model files into each symbol. Does gEDA support this? I think it does, but I don't accurately remember. . . . Of course, if "gattrib" ever gets done, then you can use it to attach arbitrary attributes across many symbols (almost) simultaneously. But please don't wait for me to finish gattrib. I am not a master C hacker like other people on this list. :-( Stuart
