Re: gEDA-user: Buses in gEDA/gaf

2006-10-19 Thread Martin Habets
On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 01:06:13AM +, Michael Sokolov wrote: > OK, let's review: buses on schematics are a documentation feature, i.e., > intended not for tools but for other engineers looking at the drawing, > right? Now suppose I want to label my buses for the same purpose: as a > documentat

Re: gEDA-user: Buses in gEDA/gaf

2006-10-18 Thread Ales Hvezda
[snip] >> Now suppose I want to label my buses for the same purpose: as a >> documentation aid for others looking at my schematics. Of course I can >> just stick a text object next to it that isn't of name=value form, but >> it seems to me that an attribute would be more appropriate, even if no >>

Re: gEDA-user: Buses in gEDA/gaf

2006-10-18 Thread DJ Delorie
> OK, let's review: buses on schematics are a documentation feature, i.e., > intended not for tools but for other engineers looking at the drawing, > right? Yes. > Now suppose I want to label my buses for the same purpose: as a > documentation aid for others looking at my schematics. Of course

Re: gEDA-user: Buses in gEDA/gaf

2006-10-18 Thread Michael Sokolov
DJ Delorie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A "bus" is purely decoration. Everything ignores it. All that > matters is the nets that connect to it and THEY must have net names, > as usual. Yes, each little connecting net has to be named. That's > what does the actual work. OK, thanks for the clar

Re: gEDA-user: Buses in gEDA/gaf

2006-10-18 Thread DJ Delorie
> 1. There doesn't seem to be any way to indicate how wide a bus is in >bits, i.e., how many nets should it turn into. Does gEDA not care? >How can it not care? How many nets is the netlister going to >generate for a bus? A "bus" is purely decoration. Everything ignores it. All th

gEDA-user: Buses in gEDA/gaf

2006-10-18 Thread Michael Sokolov
Hello again fellow gEDA users, As my OSDCU design is a microprocessor system of moderate complexity, I need to use buses on my schematics -- for my microprocessor's address and data buses and everything connected to them. I haven't been able to find any real documentation on buses in gEDA/gaf (al