Re: Quad-packs in LTSpice schematics?

From: Joerg (notthisjoergsch_at_removethispacbell.net)
Date: 11/20/04 

Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 20:38:53 GMT

Hi Ken,

>I think it wouldn't be too hard to use LTSpice as the schematic capture
>for a PCB layout with multiple parts per package. You would have to to
>write a little bit of code to deal with the resulting netlist. LTSpice
>allows just about any text in a reference designator.
>
>You can call one part "U1A" and the next "U1B" and so on. Then a bit of
>software could strip off the "A", "B" and etc and adjust the pin numbers
>in the saved netlist. Texts could be used to hold the attributes of the
>traces, so you can even include traces width and clearance values.
>
>I think that this is a very worthy project.
>
>

Yes, it certainly would be but I am not much of a programmer. But I'll
probably experiment a little and when I figure something out I will post
about that.

Regards, Joerg

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