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Signal name, or Potential/signal name, refers to the same property as the Potential name that is specified in potential reference symbols, which are used to create connections from one sheet to another.

 

The signal name therefore normally have a range that covers an entire sub-node. However, by using the wire-number symbol, it is in fact possible to specify signal name separately for each wire. In most cases, that will defy both logic and the physics of reality. Doing so is therefore definitely not recommended, even if it in fact works fine in the software.

 

There are three possible ways of defining the signal name. Those methods are described below, with increasing priority.

 

▪A Potential name is specified in the potential reference symbol, when that is used. This is the same thing as the Signal name and will be valid for the entire sub-node.

 

▪A Potential/signal name can also be defined in a property symbol.

 

▪Finally, a Signal name can be specified in a wire-number symbol.

 

The property symbol has priority over the potential reference symbol, and the wire-number symbol has priority over both the others.

 

▪The Potential/signal name that is specified in the potential reference symbol is valid for all wires within the sub-node.

 

▪The range of a Potential/signal name that is specified in a property symbol is always the Sub-node. The Node and Via (wire) options are not available. Please refer to the Property symbol topic.

 

▪A Potential/signal name that is specified in a wire-number symbol, is valid for one single wire only. To define different potential/signal names for different wires within the same sub-node defies both physics and logics, so you should avoid that.