[sdiy] Pulsonix PCB design software

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In Eagle, this sort of screw-up wouldn't happen. The 'pinswap' operation is smart about the '+' and '-' inputs, and will connect them correctly even if you have flipped or rotated the symbol. Eagle devices can be very smart about which pins are interchangeable and which are not. For example, a resistor array with one bus pin could mark all of the other pins as equivalent, so you can unwind traces with pull-ups and not get lost.

Brian


On Jul 27, 2017, at 12:48 PM, Tom Wiltshire wrote:
> One (unfortunate) side-effect of the Diptrace way of doing this is that you have to keep an eye on which way up you have the op-amps. I once screwed up a PCB layout by rearranging op-amps like this, but then failing to notice that I’d vertically flipped some of them (to get +ve and -ve input more convenient for the schematic). So I wired the right op-amps in the right places, but got completely the wrong wires connected up. Didn’t notice until the prototype PCB utterly failed to do what it was supposed to. I kicked myself for that one.
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