> 3) Lower case and underscore are accepted as parts of a name by most tools.
> On the other hand, both "*" and "-" are operators in many languages.
that was my fear, but what about the "/" as brian suggested i think i
like that one best
Dennis Saputelli
Joey Nelson wrote:
>
> Dennis,
>
> I've gone with the convention of RW_n for the following reasons:
>
> 1) Some tools (Protel Schematic -> PCB) loose case. Occasionally I'm left
> thinking what the heck some NOBCLP or whatever signal is, especially bad
> when the preceding N makes a meaningful word: nAP becomes NAP.
>
> 2) I do a fair amount of verilog code along with my PCB designs, and I want
> my names to be as similar as
> possible between the designs. In verilog, I use the convention that all
> signals are lower case with underscore to separate words. In Protel I
> follow the same convention just with all caps.
>
> 3) Lower case and underscore are accepted as parts of a name by most tools.
> On the other hand, both "*" and "-" are operators in many languages.
>
> Joey Nelson
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dennis Saputelli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Protel EDA Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Saturday, June 01, 2002 10:58 AM
> Subject: Re: [PEDA] negation character redux
>
> > I know this has been widely discussed but ...
> >
> > re:
> > pin naming on schematic symbols and the negation character thereof
> >
> > what was the consensus, or was there?
> > i know the bar symbol is problematic and i have decided to never use it
> > again
> >
> > i recall someone advocating the use of "n" as in nRW
> > that doesn't look too bad but what about "*" or "-"
> >
> > i was scared to use those without some advice that those characters were
> > not problematic
> > (sometimes this sort of thing doesn't bite you until late in the game)
> >
> > as a functional issue i guess this question is probably more importantly
> > applied to net labels than schem pin names
> > but i think they should be done consistently
> >
> > Dennis Saputelli
> >
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