Re: gEDA-user: pinseq - pinnumber?

[Dan McMahill <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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).
> 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.

looks like vipec uses it.

In general, you could probably argue that pinseq is going to be needed 
in some cases so I'd probably not like it to go away.

I just have missed how pinseq is used in the case of a slotted symbol.

-Dan


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