Re: gEDA-user: unconnected pins in symbols

["Phil Taylor" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I usually just put all the junk pins in the symbol with 'nc' pinlabel.

You'll want the right pin-numbers to match your footprints though.

You may want to put all of the NC pins in an out-of-the-way part of your
symbol.  Still, just put them in the symbol then forget about them!

Phil




kmk <kmk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
> my current opamp symbol will produce a warning with gsymcheck:
> 
>     Warning: Number of pins does not match footprint size.
> 
> This is because the symbol includes the SO8 footprint but uses only five
> of the eight pins. How can I persuade gsymcheck that there are three
> pins that gnetlist and DRC can safely ignore? (In Protel there is a
> special net called "nonet" for this kind of situation.)
> 
> In other words: What is the correct way to deal with unconnected pins?
> 
>    ---<(kaimartin)>---