Hi - I am finishing up the layout of my first really sophisticated PCB.
(over 12 ICs, 3 modules, over 10 connectors, and nearing 100 discretes,
among other components).
When laying it out I've just turned off all the value and name layers.
The names of all the parts are just incremental in the order in which I
added them (C1, C2, etc.)
But this seems a very ugly naming system. I have two ideas for ways to
fix it:
1. there are maybe 8 or so different types of capacitors on this board
- I thought that I could give the types different letters (ie A, B,
etc.) and then name all the capacitors of type A CA1, CA2, etc. Then
all of type B CB1, CB2, and so on and so forth.
2. Instead of giving them different type names, I could just name all
those in type A in a series (is C1-C10 are type A, C11-115 are type B,
and so on)
Is there a standard way to name components? Having a naming scheme is
especially important as this is a prototype board and will thus be
soldered by hand.