RE: gEDA-user: Really big component in gschem

["EATON,JOHN (HP-Vancouver,ex1)" <john_eaton@hp.com>]

Buy an E-size plotter.

Nobody handles this very well. The traditional method started
running into trouble when ic's hit 100 pins. 

We need a method of creating multiple ic segments that when
all placed and connected would show all the ic pins. We have
done something like that here using Mentor DA and spliting the
power out from the logic but I'm not sure how that would work
in gschem.

John Eaton





-----Original Message-----
From: chris.ellec@aegisdevices.com [mailto:chris.ellec@aegisdevices.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 4:44 PM
To: geda-user@seul.org
Subject: gEDA-user: Really big component in gschem





Hello,

How do you best handle a large pin count component in gschem ?

I have made components up to 208 pins, they use up half the schematics by
themselves and there is a lot of wasted space. Next I'll be working on a 388
pins BGA component, I would like to get other people's opinion on the best
way
to handle it before I get started.

Thanks,

Chris.