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Subject: Re: [geda-user] Symbol attributes
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Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 06:49:08 -0600
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On Jul 20, 2012, at 1:12 AM, Gabriel Paubert wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 02:30:17PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
>> 
>> Do what you think makes sense for your symbols; the device= attribute
>> is not used rigourously by any of the scripts.
> 
> 
> Huh? It is heavily used by the netlisters. 

Only a subset of the netlisters (allegro, eagle, futurenet, mathematica, pcbfwd, spice-sdb, systemc, tango, verilog, vhdl) use the device= attribute. They generally use the attribute in incompatible ways. The standard library symbols reflect this. So, the only advice that really works here is:

1. Understand what your flow needs, go with that.

2. Otherwise, avoid using the device= attribute.

John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
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