Re: Quad-packs in LTSpice schematics?

From: Ken Smith (kensmith_at_green.rahul.net)
Date: 11/21/04 

Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 01:56:10 +0000 (UTC)

In article <xXNnd.20180$zx1.16373@newssvr13.news.prodigy.com>,
Joerg <notthisjoergsch@removethispacbell.net> wrote:
>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.

If you do a good job of documenting what needs to be done, you will be 90%
of the way towards the software needed. Getting someone to turn a good
discription into software shouldn't be too hard. Just don't ask for a
GUI. 

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