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[jp charras <jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Le 13/09/2015 20:11, Wayne Stambaugh a écrit :
> On 9/13/2015 1:50 AM, Lorenzo Marcantonio wrote:
>> On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 10:49:59PM -0600, Joseph Chen wrote:
>>
>>> Though you don't approve the change now, I hope you would approve it
>>> sometime later soon, like maybe RC2. I am saying this because I
>>> believe the fix is crucial for KiCAD to be improved towards a
>>> production quality EDA, after I encountered my PCB's near "DEATH"
>>> situation.
>>
>> I don't think that checking unmatched names is so critical. In fact
>> *most* of my labels are simply used to... label nets, not to create a
>> connection. That way during routing I can see the signal which need
>> particular attention (also it's easier to set netclasses in this way)
>>
>> A distraction like a mistyped label is akin to connecting a wire to the
>> wrong pin (one time I flipped over an amp symbol... lot's of smoke
>> happened :D); no ERC can save you from that.
>>
>> The *only* feature useful in the schematic DRC is the 'unconnected pin'
>> warning; all the other ones (signal conflicts, power pins and so on) are
>> a complete nuisance (at least for mixed signal and analog-heavy boards).
>> Even for digital boards a filter inductor on a power pin would give a
>> missing power warning :P
>>
> 
> When a pin is connected to a wire with a label that doesn't go anywhere,
> does the ERC generate an error?  It probably should because technically
> this is still an unconnected pin.  This is a more sensible then checking
> for unmatched label names for the reasons Lorenzo stated above.
> 

Yes, because unconnected pins without no connect symbol are detected.


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Jean-Pierre CHARRAS