To the Most Worshipful Mystic Masters,
One knocks at your portal seeking enlightenment on the seven-fold path.
While I have learned enough about my copy of Protel 99SE/SP6 to realize
that "learning Protel" is a life-long project; I am wondering if there is a
more elegant solution for PLDs in schematic capture that the basic
brute-force approach of creating an "User-I/O-Pin" version of the component
in the library, and then doing a "Component Copy, Rename, and Edit" for
each instance for a "programmed PLD"? I ask this question because I might
easily be still too ignorant to see the "obvious better answer"
(forest/trees etc.).
If there is not a better solution and considering the way the PLDs are
replacing "fixed logic", one would hope that Protel was working on a more
elegant solution for SP7/SP8. As one possible example of a suggestion, I
would certainly be willing to accept the creation of a "reserved control
character" in pin names (and/or electrical type) that would allow the
project cache copy of the symbol to be updated via a new command from a
specified format text file (end-user responsibility to generate). I can
even conceive of achieving this by a database server function (although I
would be incapable of writing it!). I can even conceive of paying actual
money (although not too much) to someone who had a third-party add-on
program for Protel that provided this function.
TIA and Bye from Duane Hague
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