Connections are not the same in schematic and pcbNew

[eelik]

@nick

does this mean that taking a capacitor, and hooking it one pin to Vcc, and one pin to GND, makes it a decoupling capacitor?

If you have to ask that, you either didn’t read my earlier links or didn’t understand what was there.

PCB with KiCAD: Possible error in routing decoupling capacitors

Read Does the connected trace to VCC matter here? and the threads linked from the first post of it. [image] (now it should include a link to this thread, too)

[Amit_Bahl]

Hi Nick,

• Pin 1 and pin 5 in the schematic are shorted, which is why C4 is being displayed as being connected to Pin 5.

• In the layout, there should be a connection between pin 1 and pin 5, which should solve your problem

• You need to check if C1 is properly connected. It is important to check that the pin numbers of the schematic symbol and the component footprint symbol should match.