At 10:50 AM 2/19/03 -0600, Adi Linden wrote:

>But with digital circuits I have long ago
>come to the conclusion that little blips of vdd or gnd or little arrows
>with signal names in lieu of wires often greatly increases readability of
>a schematic. I absolutely dislike many (often Japanese) schematics that
>are just a mess of lines all over the place. I find it easier to hunt for
>a signal name on the same sheet than following a bus of 25 parallel
>lines...

Just wait til the day that you spend hours trying to figure out how
something is supposed to work, then find (hours or days later) one of those
little arrows with a signal name on it that you overlooked.  Been there,
done that.

Arrows (or circles) and ground symbols for the various supplies are an easy
way to make a dense schematic more readable.  But you have to be careful
when trying to represent nets with arrows and net names instead of lines.

dwayne

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