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Subject: Re: [geda-user] Should uCtlr symbols have mutable attributes reflecting pinmux? Discuss.
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From: karl AT aspodata DOT se (Karl Hammar)
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Dave Curtis, 16 Jul:
> Modern microcontrollers typically have several functions that can be 
> brought out to each pin, under control of some pin routing registers.   
> Typically, I've used a pinlabel such as:
> 
> pinlabel=PD5 (PCINT21/OC0B/T1)
> 
> which shows the canonical GPIO name, plus other possible functions in 
> parens afterwards.
> 
> A few days ago I was showing a friend (a KiCAD user) the output from the 
> symbol generator that I am working on, and he asked if there was a way 
> to make the pinlabel reflect the actual pin function as deployed in the 
> application, and lose all the other stuff.
...

If you are writing a symbol generator, wouldn't the simplest solution
be to make a new symbol.

I'm doing something similar with my pintosym.pl script.
See 

 http://turkos.aspodata.se/git/openhw/pdftosym/examples.pintosym/

for examples.

Regards,
/Karl Hammar

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