Re: gEDA-user: LVS and other pcb related questions

[John Griessen <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

DJ Delorie wrote:
> Ah.  In PCB, what we do is have (1) the netlist, which is from the
> schematic and knows "what should be", and (2) the rats nest and DRC,
> which come from the PCB and know "what is".  The "o" key compares the
> two.

DRC will find multiple placements, one of which is not connected to nets and flag those,
so netlist to ratlist comparison is good for LVS purpose
if and only if your footprints are correctly associated with your symbols.

John


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