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[Kevin Cozens <kevin@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 2019-12-02 12:52 a.m., Alexander Shuklin wrote:
> I would say, pin swapping is just will be an another tool (you
> probably need some specific piece of GUI for that).

Be very careful about how pin swapping is handled. Many years ago someone 
made a board that could be plugged in to an Amiga 1000 to allow the use of a 
68020 CPU in place of the stock 68000.

The board editor swapped a few gates between packages to simplify routing. 
It didn't take in to account that it was swapping some gates between a 
regular LS part and an F part. As a result the final board would work 
properly if you installed one of the LS parts with a low enough propagation 
delay.

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