Lots of components have a few internally connected pads, such as this one:
http://www.national.com/pf/LM/LMH6582.html
It has 7 GND, 12 Vee and 12 Vcc pins. It would be very nice to have only
one GND pin in schematic symbol and all of these pads connected together
in PCB layout.
Is there any way to do this?
Bert Menkveld wrote:
> No, there isn't. You have to put multiple GND pins in the shematic
Symbol
(you can call them GND@1, GND@2, ..., so they all appear as simply GND in
the schematic). You then connect each Symbol pin to a single Package pad.
While you are right that this sometimes produces an awkward looking
schematic symbol, it does allow you to show all the pad names on the
schematic. Very useful when you're probing around a board. I personally
hate schematics that hide the power and ground pins. But obviously some
other people don't.
Oh, that @ thing is new to me. Thanks 
Bert Menkveld wrote:
> No, there isn't. You have to put multiple GND pins in the shematic
Symbol
(you can call them GND@1, GND@2, ..., so they all appear as simply GND in
the schematic). You then connect each Symbol pin to a single Package pad.
While you are right that this sometimes produces an awkward looking
schematic symbol, it does allow you to show all the pad names on the
schematic. Very useful when you're probing around a board. I personally
hate schematics that hide the power and ground pins. But obviously some
other people don't.
Oh, that @ thing is new to me. Thanks
