Which is better?

[compilerbitch]

This:



or this:



In both cases, the unfamiliar symbol represents a delay. I use a Greek delta (Δ) to represent transmission line delay, and a square to represent inertial delay in equations, so I want matching circuit symbols. There aren't really any nice standard symbols, other than some quite yucky ones from the async literature that I don't really want to use for aesthetic reasons. I won't say which one I prefer, because I'd rather hear an unbiassed opinion from you lot.

[Poll #417272]

Comments

[kaet.livejournal.com]

I think that people who prefer wiggly resistors and circleless transistors (all you VLSI types!) will prefer the upper, and people who prefer box resistors and encircled transistors (all you PCB types) will prefer the lower. But, I think that the upper looks too much like some kind of open-circuit interruptor type thing. Also, I'm assuming that you want to put these symbols in to represent lumped models, (like the lumped models of noise and transmission lines and stuff), so if they're lumped, they should be inside a lump!