Bill - On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 12:26:10PM -0500, Bill Gatliff wrote: > [greatly trimmed] > It would be nice if there was an > additional "layer of abstraction" somewhere between the symbol and > footprint, such that actual pin assignments weren't made until the > footprint (and slot, if necessary) were specified. > It's just an additional layer of > abstraction above/replacing the slotdef= parameter.
I basically agree with the argument. The final trick that would make a larger audience happy is the ability to back-annotate the schematic with the physical pins -- and presumably a switch for whether to display the physical or virtual pin IDs -- so that the engineer can print out (for the field technician) a schematic that has physical pins on it. Even the original design engineer wants such a printout when bringing the board up for the first time. - Larry _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user