Component Library Development
The first step in preparing for schematic capture is creating a library or libraries of the components used in the design. This content comes from your provided bill of materials (BOM) or we can extract it from your design.
What is Component Library Development?
Your Component Library contains all of the parts for your Circuit Board. It is the foundation of your design. It ties together the manufacturer’s part information, distributor data, schematic symbol, and physical footprint. Built correctly, your Library will enable the generation of a Bill of Materials. This BOM will be sent to your assembler, used to order components, or to get quotes for parts kits.
Just need the Library built or modified? Increasingly engineers are being required to do their own Schematic Capture but don’t want to build the Parts Library. We can build your Library from a provided Bill of Materials, or from a shopping cart shared from your favorite electronics distributor.
In companies with many users creating parts, Libraries can sometimes lose their uniformity of Parameters, Reference Designators, symbol size, etc. If you need your Library cleaned up let us take that task for you, so you can keep working on more important things.
Examples of Component Library Development
- IPC Compliant Footprints
- Uniform Schematic Symbols
- Parameters including Supplier Links, Your Company’s Part Numbers
- Organized PCB and SCH Libraries
- BOM - Bill Of Materials
- Hand-Solderable Land Patterns
- TH – Through-hole, SMD – Surface Mount Device
- Component Selection
- 3D Component Body
- Clean Up of Existing Libraries