I've had some free time so I've redrawn the Mega2560 schematic with my design method.
If that can help someone because I find it more clear here is the pdf MEGA_2560-Rev3.pdf
precision: it's to help me when I use the MEGA2560 in my hardware projects and was given to the arduino team with the gerber files if they want to update the website links (even if they never answered my mails).
I'm not manufacturing boards and always buy genuine arduino from farnell/radiospares (and ask to friends to do the same). to be clear!
In the "official" drawing you have to quess if you have found all connections but not here. One reason I don't like Eagle and Kicad is just that it is too easy to draw hard to read schematic diagrams.
Eagle and Kicad is just that it is too easy to draw hard to read schematic diagrams.
What is with many (most?) Eagle schematics, they are almost illegible and I think I can say that so far I've not seen a single one I consider to be really clear.
Is it just that the main demographic that uses it are beginners, or is it something to do with the actual software?
Is it possible to move pins on a component in Eagle? If not I suspect that's part of the problem.
LMI:
This is better than the official.
In the "official" drawing you have to quess if you have found all connections but not here. One reason I don't like Eagle and Kicad is just that it is too easy to draw hard to read schematic diagrams.
Thanks
Yes same thing here, this is why I've redrawn it. but the new one comes from eagle too
it's only how the user draw the schematic and add some informations on it.
I'm using eagle since more 21 years xD
I often see symbols that include $ in the middle of the name, for example on pin numbers, but you don't have that (thank God), is this an Eagle feature that you have just turned off or something?
no i'm using my own libraries (but not for this one) and disabled "pin name" in show properties, only show the "pin number"
and I add the name as text in the symbol box under "symbol" layer.
for the schematic, I'm using the "smash" function to select a smaller character size.
here the schematics uses my libraries dmx dimmer
because I prefer to design by my own with my rules and I've got lot of pad size problem when using reflow process for my boards
