Larry Doolittle wrote: > I do this "all the time", but I use xcircuit instead of gschem. > In PCB, I can cut-and-paste the laid-out channel just fine, but > the refdes get messed up. Those are fairly easy to fix up with > an awk script. On the schematic side, what you want is a hierarchical > design. Define your amp as a block, and then instantiate it 8 times > on a higher level page. xcircuit can do this, and I trust gschem > can too. I end up post-processing the xcircuit netlist to get > reasonable component names, since they otherwise come out with > the hierarchy prefixed.
Yep, this works well in gschem -- but you have to create a symbol for your subcircuit as well as the actual schematic. I've used it to create an array of 64 analog switches and filters quite comfortably before. But that was about a year ago and I've forgotten how to do it since then... Peter -- Quake II build tools: http://peter-b.co.uk/ Latest QuArK: http://quark.sourceforge.net/LatestVersion
