2009/7/7 NdK <ndk.cla...@gmail.com>: > Brian Sidebotham ha scritto: > >> In the case of FPGA's and Micro's, we could possibly do with being >> able to define a set of pin types for a single pin. When the schematic >> symbol is placed, we should perhaps be able to click on a pin and >> change the pin type from an enum of pin types allowed for that pin. > Uhm... Just a simple thing pops up in my mind: what about > microcontrollers where pins are changed at runtime between input and > output? An example is an optimized keyboard scan algorithm (that > requires a change from input to output and back to input on a set of > pins and the inverse one on another. > > I don't think it's possible to create a rule for this... > > BYtE, > Diego.
IO stands for Input/Output, or you can use Bi-Directional which can determine that the pin is sometimes an input, and is sometimes an output. This pin type connected to a Power pin type would probably be in error. Best Regards, Brian.