X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-user-bounces using -f X-Recipient: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-Mailer: exmh version 2.8.0 04/21/2012 with nmh-1.7+dev X-Exmh-Isig-CompType: comp X-Exmh-Isig-Folder: inbox From: "karl AT aspodata DOT se [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Subject: [geda-user] Schematic attributes: device Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <20220826110318.4823680724AA@turkos.aspodata.se> Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2022 13:03:18 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP Reply-To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com So, now I'm trying to to through attributes one at a time and see if I can understand them better. We have: http://wiki.geda-project.org/geda:master_attributes_list#device https://graahnul-grom.github.io/ref-manual/lepton/device-attribute.html /// There is a typo in the geda text: Do not confuse this attribute with just having a text label which the device name. It should probaby say "with the device name." /// It seems to be required and made invisible, it doesn't say what is the point of having this and why I should have it in my symbols. So, . which backends are using this ? . what kind of values do they exspect ? . can we make a list of legal values ? /// I have decided to have it visible and use it for bom sorting, as in: device footprint value refdes Capacitor m2012_a.fp 16p 2 C1 C2 Capacitor m2012_a.fp 10n 2 3C2 _C2 CapacitorPol panasonic_ellyt_063x112c.fp 33u 8 5C3 C3 C4 Connector sil_apem_3xxx.fp APEM_31xx 1 X2 ConnectorJTAG Hsuan_Mao_C3000_20.fp ARM_JTAG20 1 jX1 Crystal txc_hc49sc.fp 6MHz 1 XTL1 Diode jedec_DO-41_10c.fp 1N400x 4 5D1 5D2 5D3 DiodeSchottky sod323_nxp_a.fp RB751V40 1 3D1 DiodeZener q_mini_melf.fp 3.3V 11 D2 jD1 jD2 DriverRS232 ic-soic-16-w.fp ADM1181A 3 arU1 brU1 MCU LQFP48_7.fp STM32F100CxT 1 _U1 Mechanical fibox_tempo_TA191209T_0p.fp TA191209T 1 M1 OpAmp so_14_a.fp TS514AID 1 U2 Optocoupler DIP04c.fp EL817 6 aU2 aU3 bU2 PwrRegDcDc xppower_il.fp IL0505S 3 aU1 bU1 cU1 PwrRegLin to220.fp LM317 1 5U1 Resistor m1608_a.fp 3.3k 4 R28 R30 R32 Switch eao_61-9821.1.fp 61-8410.22 2 X3 X4 Is that wrong ? Regards, /Karl Hammar