Bussymbol for tikz circuit lib

Question

I am looking for a way to draw a symbol to indicate a bus/multiple wires. I have seen (though I am unable to google reference pictures) schematics with a wire that has a diagonal line (45°) across it, next to which is a number. The number indicates the number of actual wires represented by the line. I figured this would be a good job for tikz circuits, however I have not found a defined shape for that (neither in the circuit library nor in the tikz symbols), thus I don't know how to define such a symbol(I don't feel that I have the time to work into the pgf basics of defining a shape that I then can define as a tikz-circuitlib element).

Am I missing something that is already there/available or could I get some pointers for a quickstart tod define this one shape?

Here a quick doodle of what I imagine(1 wire representing an 8 bit bus):

edit: I actually found one reference, however this is of little value: see the second entry for bus under the misc section (i do not care abour the arrows at the endof the path): http://www.rapidtables.com/electric/electrical_symbols.htm

Answer 1

Not being a tikz user, I have no idea if a symbol that would be suitable for inline text can be incorporated into your tikz solution (i.e., whether it has to be rotatable, etc.). But if a plain symbol would work, I created the \Bussymbol command below, that takes the associated number as an argument. The dimensions and relative placement of the strokes can all be changed to suit. If the symbol as I have formulated it is not useful, perhaps the component \BusWidth that I grabbed from the milstd package could otherwise be employed.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{milstd}
\usepackage{scalerel}
\begin{document}
\newcommand\Bussymbol[1]{%
  \scalerel*{$\BusWidth$}{\rule[1ex]{1ex}{0.5ex}}\rule{-0.81ex}{0ex}%
  \rule[-2ex]{.2ex}{2.5em}\rule{.7ex}{0ex}{\sffamily\scriptsize#1}%
}
\Bussymbol{8}
\end{document}