Hi all, I'm at the stage in my circuit design where I need to start worrying about converting my schematic to a PCB. I was playing with PCB earlier today and I found the official PCB documentation to be very, very helpful - I wish the gschem docs were as good (the gschem wiki seems a little scattered to me, but maybe I just can't figure out how to navigate it efficiently). Anyways, in my searches I haven't found anything relating to my particular question. I have a MOSFET in my circuit, so naturally I added the appropriate symbol from the gschem symbol library (I think it was "mosfet with diode 1"). This has the oddity of having the pin numbers be G, D and S instead of actual numbers... But I can rename them to numbers or rename the footprint to those; my real problem has to do with the fact that my FET's package is SO8. 3 pins are source, 4 are drain and 1 is gate. How to I convey to gschem that the single source and drain symbol pins should actually be connected to multiple physical pins? This issue has also come up with parts that have many ground connections, such as the ADXL321 accelerometer; it would be logical for the symbol to have 1 ground pin connected to many physical pins, but until I ran up against this problem with the FET, I just lived with making the symbol look like the package. Note: I understand how I can have a symbol such as an op-amp which hides the power and ground pins; I just don't know how to connect a single symbol pin to multiple physical pins. I thought about using the net attribute, but then I think all instances of my symbol would end up connected together?
Sorry for being so long-winded, I was trying to be thorough. I'd appreciate any help you can give me in figuring this out. Thanks, Ryan _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user