Altium Designer 18.1.7 - ERC for power pin drive

[ShockwaverOne]

Hello everyone

It'd be of great use for us to emit correct rule check violations for power pins in IC we use. The logic is to force compiling failure when power pins of ICs are not driven correctly from power sources.

When we used KiCad Power pin could have been in or out hence when PowerIn pins where not connected to PowerOut pin an ERC error was emitted, but with Altium designer we only have Power Pin without direction.

The only violation on the matter is when input pins are not driven by output or power pin.

The only workaround we thought of is changing our ICs power pin to input pins, but we would really like to avoid that.

Are we missing something?

Of course the hypothesis is that the violations are correctly signalled through project preferences in connection matrix and in error reporting tabs.

Also we'd like to have, in PCB editor, rules for impedance driven tracks with Grounded CoPlanar Waveguide GCPW but we can only find Microstrip and Stripline configurations. Is GCPW missing?

Thanks ahead of time

 

[andre_luis]

In the schematic library editor, there is the "Pin Properties" panel, at which there is a field called "Connect To", disabled by defaul. This could be an option worthy to try.

 

[ShockwaverOne]

Thanks for the prompt reply.
Connect To would give us the option to connect the pin by default to a net of which it's supposed we know the name, but since we can have multiple power sources in our board (digital, analog, 3v3, 5v and so forth) this wouldn't be the viable solution for us. We would need something calling out for our attention when we compile the schematics and before we update the PCB doc.