Re: gEDA: device type of symbols

[Ales Hvezda <ahvezda-at-NOSPAMseul_dot_org>]

Hi,


>BTW Is it OK for me to use non-numeric values to the pin#= attribute
>(i.e. pin1=I)? XNF identifies part pins like so and it seems obvious to
>use the pin#= attribute to carry the XNF pin name.


	Yup, That's okay.  You can use any string for the value there.

>
>I'm still puzzling over how to read arbitrary attributes from a symbol pin.
>How do I do that? I need XNF specific information about pins, and I would
>like to attach it to the pins as attributes.


	Working on it. :-)

>
>Here is a PDF of the XNF spec for those trying to follow what the heck
>I'm doing: <ftp://icarus.com/pub/eda/doc/xnfspec.pdf>
>This can also be downloaded from the Xilinx web site, but they hid it
>pretty well.


	Great.  Thanks.  I started looking for it when this whole discussion
started, but I didn't find it.

								-Ales