Re: [PEDA] Connection to Power Planes

2002-08-01 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 04:10 PM 8/1/2002 -0400, yves Dubois wrote: >Hi All, > >I am routing a 4-layer board with only through hole components. > >I need to connected the supply pins of my IC's to the supply plane but I >would like to go through a decoupling cap first. > >Is there an easy way for have those pins not

Re: [PEDA] Connection to Power Planes

2002-08-01 Thread Brian Sherer
Yves, I've found that a sure-fire way to avoid netlist conflicts in this situation is to create a second Schematic part for each IC to be decoupled, changing its power pin Name from "VCC" or "VDD" to something like "U25_PWR". Replace the original Sch component with this part. This will netlist cor

Re: [PEDA] Connection to Power Planes

2002-08-01 Thread Jeff Stout
There is a No-Connect Rule you can apply to those component pads. Goto D(esign)/R(ules)/Manufacturing/Power Plane Connection Style/Add Then goto Filter Kind and specify "Pad", and go find the pad you want. Then on rule Attribute, set it to "No Connect". Jeff Stout - Original Message - F