Re: gEDA-user: Fwd: [Open-graphics] How to get more eyes on OGD1 schematic?

[Carlos Nieves Ónega <cnieves.mail@xxxxxxxxx>]

El miÃ, 15-03-2006 a las 11:12 -0500, Dan McMahill escribiÃ:
[snip]
> I wonder if we should come up with an attribute for the symbols for 
> large parts that says "this is symbol M of of an N-symbol multi-symbol 
> component".  

This is an heterogeneus slotted part, where each slot has a different
symbol. I'd love to see support for this feature.
FMPOV, it is just a special symbol telling gschem which symbol use for
each slot. I think the first step could be to be able to make a symbol
with an instance of another symbol (i.e: including a symbol inside a
symbol) and adding some attributes to it (yes, this could be called a
heavy symbol).
When this is done, we could think about using one symbol for each
slot...

> Then you could have the drc2 backend verify that you've 
> instantiated all of the pieces of your particular chip in the schematic. 
>   Avoids embarrassing things like forgetting to instantiate the symbol 
> with all the power pins.

The drc2 backend _already_ checks that you have included all the pieces
of any slotted part....

Regards,

Carlos