When I auto annotate parts and I have a few digital gates (or another component with multiple units) I would like them to be packaged.
That is, having 4 'HC02 NOR gates and assigning them to unit A…D my preference could be to assign U3 (or whatever is free) to the 4 units. Though what I get, with auto annotation, is 4 references generated, like U3A, U4B, U5C, and U6D.
I understand that if the same kind of gates, which need to be fit, fill more than one package, then the operation is difficult to automate.
Is there any simplification/automation of this process?
I was surprised with what you write as I remember that gates are grouped during annotation.
I have at hand 6.0.2 I have installed to make some tests. I just opened new project and at schematic placed (from my libraries - I don’t have KiCad libraries listed in my library list) two LVC2G14 gates.
I got U?A and U?B. When annotated they both got number U1.
And you’re right: I just realized what made it happen apparently in my sheet
Besides drawing some parts from scratch, I had others that were multiple copies: when I copied with Ctrl+D those sections, the units were just U?A; a successive global annotation made them incrementally U3A, U4A, …
How is the grouping determined when annotation is run? More particularly is we take jmk’s example above, if I want to group the 4011 gates in a particular way e.g. U1A, U1B, U3A & U4A how can this be done.
I see no attribute that says “these are the same package”
I don’t do it often so when needed I done it manually changing references.
V6 has some new possibilities I don’t know yet. I never used it but may be while working at PCB it is possible to swap gates in IC (and may be between the same type ICs) and then back annotate to schematic.
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