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Re: gEDA-user: gschem vs. PCB diode pin numbering
On Aug 24, 2011, at 5:21 AM, Ethan Swint wrote:
> On 08/23/2011 08:47 PM, Matthew Lewis wrote:
>> I was double checking a pcb layout today and I discovered a rather nasty gotcha. It seems that gschem and PCB don't agree on which end of a diode should be pin 1. Gschem views pin 1 as the anode and PCB considers pin 1 to be the cathode. It doesn't prevent you from laying out a board correctly, but it does cause the silkscreen polarity to be printed backwards (for the SOD devices at least).
> I've defined my own symbols and footprints to use 'A' and 'K' instead of 1 and 2.
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This is what we do at my work as well.
Steve
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