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Modern way to specify values on schematics

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Gyro:
It's best to stick with engineering number format too, ie. powers of 3. That way you never see 0.1u, it's always 100n.

Personally, I much prefer 4k7 over 4.7k, It's less susceptible to lost dots and bad eyesight. I use the same in speech too.

T3sl4co1l:
There may be some confusion over m/M.  Meg is preferred in that case.

The typical example is SPICE, which is case insensitive, so 'M' always means milli.  'MEG' means mega, or you can use a multiplier instead ('1e6').  If you're doing a full design (schematic capture, simulation and BOM) you'll probably need to do this.

Tim

AndyC_772:

--- Quote from: Benta on March 03, 2019, 06:33:40 pm ---For a schematic, I only use the reference, eg, R1, R5, C2, U3 etc.
For a PCB layout I do the same thing.
I place the component values in the "mouse-over" component description / note / comment  field in the design files (schematic and PCB both).

This gives you a nice clean schematic that's easy to read, and with a click or mouse-over on the component provides additional information.

Full information (such as supplier etc.) is in the BOM.

--- End quote ---

Component values are essential information, they need to be shown always. Missing them out doesn't remove clutter, it obfuscates the function of the circuit.

Hidden power pins are the same: just say 'no'.

I tend to relegate the tolerance and dielectric to the BoM, but even they're shown on the schematic if they're at all unusual.

Ask yourself this: does a printout of this schematic tell me everything I need to debug the circuit?

T3sl4co1l:
A catch about power pins: in some tools, these connect or hide automatically (between different parts of a multipart component).  Others, you have to hide them manually.  Or there's the method of using a separate power supply part.

In any case, don't scatter multipart components across multiple sheets, keep them local, and place the supplies nearby.

Tim

dmills:
Good advice until you hit the 600+ ball FPGA sort of part, where a few sheets for the power, one for the DDR IO bank, one for the network, a couple for the serdes starts to make a lot of sense.

You really cannot do a sane schematic with a part with that many connections without carving the thing up into multiple IO banks so that the schematic breaks down by function.

Regards, Dan.

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