Bartels AutoEngineer® - Symbol and Part Libraries Chapter 1 Introduction

Contents

1.1.1

Library Management Utilities

1.1.2

Library Organization and Access

1.2.1

Symbol and Part Library Statistics

1.2.2

SCM Library Files

1.2.3

Layout Library Files

1.1 General BAE Library Information

A series of standard SCM and layout library files with corresponding logical library definitions are supplied with the Bartels AutoEngineer software. These library files are stored to a special library directory when installing the BAE software (see also Bartels AutoEngineer® Installation Guide). The logical libraries contain fixed part attribute definitions for naming part manufacturers and introducing component type comments.

This reference contains tables of contents for the symbol and part libraries supplied with the Bartels AutoEngineer software.

Bartels System GmbH has gone to great effort to verify the correctness and integrity of the symbol and part definitions provided with the Bartels AutoEngineer. However, Bartels System GmbH shall not be liable for any technical inaccuracies. Bartels System GmbH can not guarantee the availability of any of the components.

1.1.1 Library Management Utilities

Library Management Utilities

The BAE software provides some useful library management tools worthwhile to be mentioned here.

The listddb utility program lists the elements of a DDB file in an ASCII text format. listddb can be utilized for generating table of contents of selectable DDB files. See chapter 7.10 for a detailed description of listddb.

The copyddb utility program copies selected database class entries from one DDB file to another. copyddb can be used as a batch mode driven tool for merging libraries or updating job design files. See chapter 7.6 for a detailed description of copyddb.

The loglib utility program compiles an ASCII text file containing the relationship between the logical SCM symbols and physical parts into a DDB (library) file. This DDB is usually the central layout library file to be referenced during the Packager operation for translating logical net lists to physical net lists. See chapter 7.11 for a detailed description of loglib; see also chapter 3.2.3 for an example on how to use loglib.

The bsetup utility program compiles ASCII data defining system setups and defaults, such as layout layer definitions, documentation layer assignments and library access paths. See chapter 7.2 for a detailed description of bsetup.

The Bartels User Language can be utilized for implementing almost any User Language program for library management, such as library report, library dump, library compare, library check, automatic library symbol edit, automatic layer assignment, etc. The BAE software provides a large number of powerful library management User Language programs with source code. Compiled User Language programs can be called via the User Language Interpreter, which is integrated to the Schematic Editor as well as to the BAE layout system. See the Bartels User Language - Programmer's Guide for details.

Library documentation can be generated by creating and plotting SCM sheets and/or layout plans (e.g., in A4 portrait format) containing the library symbols. User Language programs for automatic generation of library documentation are provided with the BAE software.

1.1.2 Library Organization and Access

The user has free choice on how to organize library access. However, to simplify library management, the library shipped with the BAE software is delivered with different files according to part types and/or manufacturers, respectively. Some customers however might prefer to provide all of the released library data in a central library file. For this purpose the BAE software provides a batch file named mkbaelib.bat, which automates the process of merging all of the shipped libraries to one central SCM library file and one layout library file (named censcm.ddb and cenlay.ddb, respectively). This batch file can be started from the BAE libraries directory after successful installation of the BAE software from under MS-DOS with

> MKBAELIB 

and/or from under UNIX with

> mkbaelib.bat 

After successful completion of the batch process the default library access paths in the BAE setup file should be set accordingly (see chapter 7.2 for details on how to use the bsetup utility program).

1.2 Library Files

This section lists all Bartels AutoEngineer symbol and part library files.

1.2.1 Symbol and Part Library Statistics

Libraries ........................: 76
SCM Sheets .......................: 17
SCM Symbols ......................: 5697
SCM Labels .......................: 36
SCM Markers ......................: 171
Layouts ..........................: 23
Layout Parts/Footprints ..........: 1268
Layout Padstacks .................: 326
Layout Pads ......................: 431
Last Change ......................: 24/05/2013 13:30:32 [GMT]

1.2.2 SCM Library Files

1.2.3 Layout Library Files

Introduction
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