Re: gEDA-user: oscillator confusion

[Dave <dgriffi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 20 Jul 2005, John Luciani wrote:
> On 7/20/05, Dave <dgriffi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > I'm designing something that uses a crystal oscillator module in a 14-pin
> > DIP package.  I got a confusing error message when I pressed 'O' to
> > optimize rats in PCB:
> >
> >         Can't find U7 pin 8 called for in netlist.
[snip]
> Check the pin numbering of the symbol against the pin numbering of the
> footprint.
> I have seen some crystal oscillators with pins numbered using DIP pin
> position (1,7,8,14) and others numbered by pin ordinal (1,2,3,4).

I did some more checking around and found that I've tripped over the same
problem reported by Hans Johnson back in January of this year.

http://www.geda.seul.org/mailinglist/geda-user30/msg00073.html

Since he reported using version 1.99p and nobody replied, I guess it was
assumed that the problem has since been fixed in the CVS version.


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David Griffith
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