"similar no connect" pins so that it is not done on top-level
netlists. This is mainly to deal with the problem where connections
that would normally be pins (but may have, for example, been
connected to a voltage source in a schematic that was deleted because
it was not a netlistable device) are treated as no-connects.
The parallel combination of devices with similar no-connects can then
differ between netlists that differ in describing transistors as
fingered vs. individual devices. This is an obscure case, but the
output of netgen then becomes not only wrong but difficult to
understand what happened, so it is better to avoid.
Tim Edwards
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