On Jun 3, 2011, at 1:49 PM, Colin D Bennett wrote: > Is ‘device’ used for simulation purposes?
In at least some flows, yes. The spice-sdb back end to gnetlist attempts to determine if it needs to prepend a key letter to the device to select the correct SPICE primitive. You can turn this behavior off with --nomunge: that's what I usually do, since I find the heuristics here often guess wrong. > It sort of seems like it is > to specify the general type of a device, i.e., NPN TRANSISTOR, etc. > At least what I have been doing is to add device= as a hidden attribute > specifying the general type of the symbol (e.g., “RS-485 TRANSCEIVER”), > and add value= as a visible attribute (for most types of symbols, such > as connectors and ICs) giving the specific device (e.g., “SP3075E”). There is no universal convention in gEDA practice for what the "device" attribute indicates. John Doty Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd. http://www.noqsi.com/ j...@noqsi.com _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
