Re: gEDA-user: pinseq - pinnumber?

[John Doty <jpd@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mar 11, 2009, at 10:29 AM, Stuart Brorson wrote:

>> Well, I just used gschem to make symbols for the 64-pin XC9572 (by
>> modifying the symbols for the 44-pin XC9532 from gedasymbols.org). It
>> wasn't that much work.
>
> Pretty easy is right.
>
>> However now I'll have to set all those pinseq values.
>
> Quit yer whining.
>
> Pinseq is not used unless you have a slotted symbol
> (use number 1), or you want to use spice-sdb (use number 2).

Or the old spice backend or the vipec back end. And maybe somebody in  
the future will want a back end for some other netlist format that  
identifies pins positionally.

Unfortunately, pinseq is overloaded (multiple potentially  
incompatible uses) and confusing.

> Otherwise, you don't need to set pinseq at all.  You only need to set
> pinnumber to be able to netlist to PCB.
>
> Hmmmm....  maybe I need to change this piece of gEDA documentation:
>
> http://geda.seul.org/wiki/geda:master_attributes_list#pinseq
>
> I'm pretty sure this page is wrong.  Maybe people will complain less
> if it's fixed.
>
> Stuart
>
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John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
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