On Sep 11, 2007, at 2:49 PM, andrewm wrote: > > Steve, > > Sure I can do a bug/feature request on this (after I > read up how too). > > Just want to make sure that it is something wrong or > something people want. > > Should the two pins same-named be treated as a single > entity so they can be used like a jumper or should the > connection have to be made manually in the schematic > and the pins be named differently. >
My feeling is that if pins are numbered the same then they are electrically connected in the part. an example is the 4 mounting pins on a SMA to PCB jack the 4 outer pins are electrically equal, you can attach to any of them they are the same net PCB wanted all 4 pins connected... but electrically only one needs connection. Some discussion could be put into this. do we want sub pins for the net of pins so on a SMA example the center conductor would be pin 1 the 4 mounting pins would be pins 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4 so if the net specified connect to pin 2 it would make a electrical connection to any of the pins and be done if you specified that it was pin 2.1 it would connect to that sub pin. if you specified 2.* it would require connection on all sub pins. this would provide for the most options in how to handle internally connected pins with the same numbering. thoughts gang? Steve _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user