Editing Netlist (section)

==Types of netlists==

Netlists can be:
* '''Physical''' (based upon physical connections) or '''logical''' (based upon logical connections)
** For example, connecting three components through one terminal of one of those components would be considered a direct ''logical'' connection, whereas each would be discrete ''physical'' connections.
* '''Instance-based''' (clustered about a component instance) or '''net-based''' (exhaustive list of connections to a particular net)
** '''Flat''' (all connections are shown) or '''hierarchical''' (connections are grouped in some way; such as which physical board or layer they are connected to. Such netlists may in addition be either ''folded'', hiding data beneath a given level of abstraction, or ''unfolded'', being exhaustive and thus potentially equivalent in content to flat netlists.)