Re: gEDA-user: Is there a *official* JFET symbol in gEDA?

[John Doty <jpd@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Jun 26, 2009, at 4:02 AM, Anthony Shanks wrote:

> The device property has nothing to do with simulations.

Depends. spice-sdb uses device as part of the process it goes through  
to determine what prefix letter, if any, to add to the refdes to  
comply with SPICE conventions.

> IIRC gnetlist
> chooses how to netlist a particular symbol according to it's refdes
> and uses the value property as the value for netlisting. I don't think
> the device property is used for anything. I am however making spnet
> use the device property for netlisting to decide what the device is
> and leaving refdes open for choice.

I don't think this is a good idea. You are overloading an attribute  
that is already used for other purposes. Often, it's a part number.

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




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