At 12:39 PM 3/12/01 -0800, Mike Coward wrote:
>
> We had lots of problems here in our hierarchical designs with having our
>ports not match on sheets and their sheet symbol. The Protel ERC couldn't
>seem to detect the two most important cases: ports with no matching sheet
>symbol entry, and a sheet symbol entry with no matching port. (If the ERC
>can be configured to do this, please let me know - I tried for days). I put
>together a Perl program to scan the design and find the errors, and I'd be
>happy to make it available to anyone who wants it.
This program has been uploaded to the filespace for
[EMAIL PROTECTED], zipped with documentation as portcheck.zip.
It is written in Perl; a URL for obtaining a Perl interpreter is given in
the readme file.
Thanks to Mr. Coward for providing this utility.
Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
LOMAX DESIGN ASSOCIATES
PCB design, consulting, and training
Protel EDA brokering (resale) services
Sonoma, California, USA
(707) 939-7021, efax (419) 730-4777
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