Re: gEDA-user: More robust support of multi-part symbols.

[Steve Meier <smeier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Talking about gates and using the term slots is so 1980's.

Today's issues are how are pga's supported. How are multiple logic
levels, being able to define a pin as an input an output or
bi-directional or differential? How are the gates logic levels defined?

Let alone, how at the layout level we can do pin swapping and back
annotation.

To me geda and pcb are just falling further and further behind the state
of the art.

Steve Meier

On Wed, 2009-07-08 at 15:54 -0700, Dave N6NZ wrote:
> Stefan Salewski wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-07-08 at 13:49 -0700, Dave N6NZ wrote:
> > 
> >> Well, then IMHO, KiCad sucks. :)  Power belongs on a symbol by itself, 
> >> and that symbol belongs on an infrastructure page, not on the same page 
> >> as functional data flow.  But that's just me. (And all other right 
> >> thinking people :)
> >>
> >> -dave
> >>
> > 
> > You may be right...
> > But if there are people who like slotted parts for which one slot has
> > visible power pins and the other slots have not, then we should
> > investigate if we can integrate this functionality into gEDA without
> > breaking something. If it can be done, without destroying something or
> > making things much more complicated, and there is someone who will code
> > this very carefully, the we should not say that it is bad. At least not
> > too loud.
> > 
> 
> Yes, sure.  Thus the smileys.
> 
> <serious>
> Design automation tools should not force any particular methodology, nor 
> should they preclude any if they can help it within practical reason.
> </serious>
> 
> Now back to your regularly scheduled sarcasm...
> 
> -dave
> 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
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