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Re: gEDA-user: device attribute



On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, George M. Gallant, Jr. wrote:

Many of the symbols contain an entry in the form of "device=xxx".
However these entries do
not appear to in the ".sch" file when the symbol gets added to the
schematic. We can manually
assign a device attribute which appear to have the same syntax.

Am I missing the process of importing attributes from the symbol files?
What is the purpose of
assigning attributes in the ".sym" file if they are not used?

The "device" attribute is read by gnetlist to know what to do with each symbol. The Scheme back ends use this attribute when deciding how to process the symbol and write the corresponding netlist. In this sense, "device" is not an attribute for the user, it is for the CAD package. Therefore, it doesn't show up in your netlist or in your (settable) attributes.

Stuart


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