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Subject: Re: [geda-user] One big vs. a few smaller sym's for MCU's (was: Yet another sym file generator)
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Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 22:17:32 +0200 (CEST)
From: karl AT aspodata DOT se (Karl Hammar)
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Bdale:
> For me, since I'm designing things that are small enough that I can
> typically get the entire schematic on one sheet, there's not a lot of
> value in breaking up the symbol.  

I found that is so for me too.

> Once you're past 100 pins or so on the device, breaking them up by
> function so that you can have for example a page in the schematic that's
> about the power supply, one that's about external memory interfaces, one
> that's about network interfacing, etc etc etc, that can seem quite
> useful... and make it worth the slightly larger effort of creating and
> maintaining a set of symbols.

I'm trying to find ways to minimize that effort by keeping a pin list 
and the tell the program what parts of it should go to resp.
(sub-) symbol.

Assuming there is no pain in creating and maintaining that set of
symbols, what pain is left ?

Perhaps one should some way to check that a subpart isn't included 
twice and such.

> That's my take on it, at least.

Ok, thanks.

Regards,
/Karl Hammar

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