gnupic@linuxhacker.org

On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Ralf Forsberg wrote:

> On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, you wrote:
> 
> I have a new example at www.acc.umu.se/~rfg/pinout2.gif.

Cool!

> 
> It is rotated, has colors and pin names.

One issue that I ignore in the cli is the quad package. Rotation is not an
issue, you've got pins on all 4 sides. Also, I assume that the other sized
packages (dips not quads) are being added? Or is the package dynamically
created?

I don't have anything major to add to what you've presented so far.
However, have you considered adding node names to the pins? I have not
done it for the cli, but what I was thinking of here was having the pin
names on the inside of the IC (like in your .gif) and the node names on
the outside. (And I can hear it now... If you show the node names, how
about the stimuli on the other end? :)

Having the ability to single click on the arrows would be a really neat
way to change the tris bits. One caveat that we'll need to keep in mind
while this is being done is that this could initiate a cascading change
(if for example, a stimulus is attached to the pin you're changing).

This new feature reminds me of that old 16c84 only simulator that runs
directly on top of X.

Scott