gEDA-dev: Thoughts on buses in gschem

[Dan McMahill]

Bob Paddock wrote:
>>My preference would be for the Orcad method (which sounds similar to the Cadence
>>method).
>>
>>As I remember the Orcad method you run a net from the pin and name the net.
>>You place a bus entry symbol to graphical connect the net to a bus.
>>The connection is done by net names not the bus. Labels on the bus do not
>>affect connections.
> 
> 
> This makes it very easy, and wrong, to hook things up to the bus
> that ultimately go no place (they never come back out of the bus
> anyplace).  I have to deal with badly drawing Orcad schematics
> every day.  BossMan just sicks things in the bus, and misspells
> them coming out etc... :-(  So if this approach is used then there needs
> be a check to flag bus nets that don't go anyplace.
> 

The "check and save" button in cadence will flag nets that don't go 
anywhere.

-Dan