Re: gEDA-user: Open Collector Error Checking

[John Doty <jpd@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Feb 10, 2011, at 4:40 PM, Oliver King-Smith wrote:

>   I am getting this error when I run the DRC2
>   ERROR: Pin(s) with pintype 'open collector': U70:2 U70:4
>       are connected by net 'unnamed_net204'
>       to pin(s) with pintype 'open collector': U70:2 U70:4
>   The above statement is absolutely correct, these two pins are both open
>   collector, and indeed they are wire together.  But why would I want to
>   report this as an error?  Isn't part of the idea behind open_collector
>   outputs the concept of wiring them together?

Oliver, drc2 is a deeply flawed program. It reports many, many perfectly reasonable things as errors. That doesn't make it useless: by sifting through all the crud you'll find real problems. But assume that most warnings it emits are wrong.

John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
http://www.noqsi.com/
jpd@xxxxxxxxx




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