John Griessen wrote: > gene wrote: >>> When you lay out your board you get this fun issue that your refdes >>> for a 0402 resistor is about 5 miles long. >> Really? I haven't tried this yet - but are you saying the refdes gets >> prefixed with the path? It makes sense for the nets, but not the refdes. > > The path in front is what makes each refdes unique and each refdes is the > whole path > to a symbol. If you present a simpler view it just means you are hiding the > complexity somewhere, > and at this point, gschem/gnetlist aren't hiding anything. > > John Griessen > Oh, I see what you mean. This hierarchy allows reuse of a lower level schematic - that is draw it once then instantiate it as many times as you like. This way, R1, for example, doesn't have to change for each instance of the section. So I wind up with something like /instantiation1/R1 and /instantiation2/R1. OK, fine. I can't say I like that, but I get it.
I've always liked the notion of a unique base refdes per section. For example, 4 analog front-ends. All the same schematic, just 4 instantiations of it. I prefer to number them like instantiation-1 has refdes R100, instantiation-2 has R200, etc. If I want to do this in gschem, I think I need to have my hierarchical symbol point to another copy of the schematic, not the same schematic. But it'll still have some prefix stuff attached to the refdes, right? gene _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user