I am making a little plug-in board that carries a real-time clock (RTC) chip. It needs a backup battery and the backup battery needs a holder (aka “socket”). Both need to appear on the BOM. Of course, I can add one or the other to the BOM, manually, but that leads to a high probability of errors.
How do I add both to the schematic and avoid warnings/errors of “unconnected pins”, “unconnected pads”, and or a surplus pads that never appear on the PCB?
I would think that this is the same problem as with socketed ICs.
Many thanks
Jim Wagner
Oregon Research Electronics
Know about 8. I started this project back when 6 was brand new. I have two software “rules” I follow: (1) never change major revs of mission-critical software mid-project unless forced to, and (2) never be an early adopter of mission-critical software. Both got in the way on this project.
I will look for something like that in V5. Thanks
Jim
I won’t be using V5 again. With converting from the old V5 there can be some issues (especially if the -cache or -rescue files are missing, but I’t just run it through the conversion and be done with the old V5. If there is a problem you can always revert to a backup in V5 (Assuming you have that of course).
Is this a DIY product, or is it commercial? Maybe collaboration with other people? This will determine a lot of how you want to generate BOM generation. One option is to put extra symbols on the schematic, (without pins) just to have en extra entry for the BOM. You can even put these on a separate sheet for “Extra Parts” and add a not for why these exist.
