Assign Pin Name

Suee Chi

• October 16, 2020 15:29

I have used the connectors pins by renaming its pins for grouping purposes.

I have found that I can rename the pin name to a certain character. How can I extend the limits?

For example, I wanted to rename the pin to "(1~5,6,7,9,15,18,21,23,33~35 External)".

I get the two problems here:

1) I can't use commas. What else I can use?

2) I replace commas with Dash, then this name can't be fully assigned? How can I fix this?

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  Paul Bloom

  • October 19, 2020 14:12

  Are you using pin groups?

  For example, does your E3 device tree show P1 as having 2 pins or 16 pins?  

  If I am not being clear, please share a fully expanded image of you E3 device tree for this cable.

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  Permanently deleted user

  • October 21, 2020 16:27
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  As Paul mentioned in the earlier post, not sure about the intent of that design decision or questions.

  However, there are some limitations and options for combining pins in E3.series

  1. The pin number has somewhere around a 64 Character limit.
  2. Pins can be combined using the Pin Groups options. 
  3. You can use an internal pin attribute to communicate complex pin information in place of using the pin number field.

   

  Need more details, though.

   

  Edited - correction for character limit

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  Suee Chi

  • October 19, 2020 18:36

  Sir Paul Bloom

  I am using 2 pins in P1. Just changed its name to 1-9 and 9-16. 

   

  Sir Sanu Warrier

  How can I then use the internal pin attribute everywhere in reports, foamboard, etc? I don't have this issue every time. Can't the 16 Character limit be extended?

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  Permanently deleted user

  • October 21, 2020 16:26

  Sorry Correction - in the library you can pin numbers with 64 characters. NOT 16

   

  For internal attributes - If you want to use it for a report it will have to be custom - in case there needs to be an internal pin attribute. 

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