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Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 09:50:51 -0500
From: John Griessen <john AT ecosensory DOT com>
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] One big vs. a few smaller sym's for MCU's
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On 07/10/2012 12:24 PM, Bdale Garbee wrote:
> 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.
>
> That's my take on it, at least.

I think similarly -- separate sections of one chip is for a logical arrangement
of schematic without caring about layout yet.

I like the idea of being ready with the small package symbols to
add a feature set and peripherals to a design and have the minimum set of wires stay the same.

John