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[Kaspar Emanuel <kaspar.emanuel@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ah gotcha, I had intra and inter mixed up in my head.

On 29 February 2016 at 18:48, Daniel Silverstone <dsilvers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 17:09:53 +0000, Kaspar Emanuel wrote:
> > I read through your blog post, I will build your fork and test it out if
> I
> > get a chance.
>
> Wonderful.
>
> > The extra ERC option seems useful indeed. I am a bit confused about the
> > intra-sheet link feature though, is this different from global labels?
>
> The intra-sheet link elements exist *purely* for ERC reasons, to
> communicate
> the explicit intent of the engineer to have a net linked elsewhere on the
> *same* sheet.
>
> Global labels and heirarchical labels remain exactly as they were.  The
> idea is
> only to ensure that the schematic capture engineer be a little more
> explicit
> about what currently could be a deliberately dangling wire (because they
> meant
> to link it elsewhere on the same sheet by way of labels) or a mistake
> which the
> engineer or reviewer failed to catch.
>
> D.
>
> > P.S. Might I suggest a different favicon for your blog? The current one
> > isn't very welcoming.
>
> Aah yes, that's what my husband drew for me when I asked him to do a
> favicon
> which represented Git.  I'll change it over to something less rude :-)
>
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