On Jun 16, 2008, at 1:50 PM, Brian Fuller wrote: > Sorry, I typed that up real quick once I noticed that there was no > immediate option to take a schematic and squish it into a symbol. I > was wondering if there were any plans to have such an option, > something I've seen regularly on much more expensive, albeit not as > high quality suites.
We call it "hierarchy". Put I/O tags on your schematic, create the symbol, refer to the schematic with the source= attribute. Match refdes= attributes on the I/O tags to pinlabel= on the symbol. Very useful! > > I tried to gnetlist my counter, and got quite an error list. When > you say add nets, do you mean I need a dotted point on the wired > connections? > > -Sorry, I've always been forced to use my school's tools and lately > I've been really wanting to get more into the Geda project, any > advice would be appreciated > > -BAF > > On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 12:14 PM, Brian Fuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > I saw the question and made a real quick counter, but was hoping to > modularize parts of it. > I was wondering how tough it would be to export simple parts of > gscheme schematics into component files. Such as exporting a simple > S-R latch to be able to easily create a D-FF to quickly work up to > a binary counter. > > Any suggestions? > > On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 11:48 AM, John Luciani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 2:38 PM, Peter Clifton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 13:34 -0400, John Luciani wrote: > > There are a number of places in your schematic where the active > > end of one symbol pin is placed on top of the active end of another. > > You need > > to move the symbols apart and connect the pins with nets. > > > > This should fix a number of your netlist problems. > > Not true? > > My mistake. I had thought that butting pins didn't connect. > > Maybe I was thinking of a different EDA tool. With Orcad > I got into the habit of placing a net for all pin to pin connections. > I have always placed nets since. > > (* jcl *) > > > -- > http://www.luciani.org > > > _______________________________________________ > geda-user mailing list > geda-user@moria.seul.org > http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user > > > > <counter.sch> > > > _______________________________________________ > geda-user mailing list > geda-user@moria.seul.org > http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user John Doty Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd. http://www.noqsi.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user