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Date:	Sun, 10 Feb 2013 11:48:08 +0100 (CET)
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John Eaton:
> On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 1:32 PM, drew einhorn <drew DOT einhorn AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
...
> > I'm using a fairly complex chip,  with a bunch of simple circuits around
> > its edges.  It would be nice to be able to enlarge the center chip to get
> > more space for the surrounding circuits.  How do I do this?
>
> One technique is to break up the center chip  into banks and spread those
> around the sheets.

I have a program for that sort of things, see the tread starting at:

 http://www.delorie.com/archives/browse.cgi?p=geda-user/2012/07/09/17:03:2

Examples for a stm32f100 arm mcu, with parts of the mcu in other
symbols are found at:

 http://turkos.aspodata.se/git/openhw/arm_mcu/test.sch
 http://turkos.aspodata.se/git/openhw/armboards/hasselby_b.sch

Unfortunately for other than me, I include sym files from all over the
place. My config is in

 http://turkos.aspodata.se/git/openhw/config/

> If you make the center chip huge then you wind up wasting all that white
> space in  it's middle

Yeah, but I liked your idea of the inverted symbol:

http://www.delorie.com/archives/browse.cgi?p=geda-user/2012/07/11/14:45:51

Regards,
/Karl Hammar

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