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Re: [RFC] Intra-sheet links and dangling ERC checks

 

Yeah... that one have alos caught me a few times.

2016-02-29 19:50 GMT+01:00 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 :-)
>>
>> --
>> Daniel Silverstone                         http://www.digital-scurf.org/
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