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[Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>]

2016-02-29 19:48 GMT+01:00 Daniel Silverstone <dsilvers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> 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.

Thank you for the write up, I now better understan what exactly you
mean, although I would like so understand the use cases in combination
with the other label types. Like what happens for a global label
situation? Are the two sheets now considered the same sheet or?

> 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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