Design Architect/Library Management System

Course Highlights

You will examine every step of the schematic and library process in lectures; including hierarchical schematic capture, symbol creation, library structure and design viewpoint generation as well as library data management. You will learn the use of the "To_Layout" utility, which provides an automated process for packaging schematic designs for board layout. Lab exercises are designed to give you hands-on experience and reinforce the design process steps covered in the lecture.

You will learn how to

• Create and edit a schematic for a hierarchical design using the DA_LMS Parts selector to select parts from LMS libraries
• Create and edit component symbols
• Create and edit properties on a symbol and schematic
• View a sheet within the context of a design
• Build shopping lists and replacement list of LMS parts
• Update and replace parts in your design
• Query catalog files for usable parts
• Successfully check and save a schematic design
• Package schematic design using the To_Layout utility

Hands-On Labs

• Design Architect within the Framework environment
• Creating a schematic symbol and adding properties
• Creating a hierarchical schematic using the LMS tools
• Creating functional blocks
• Explore DA_LMS features
• Advanced schematic editing techniques
• Update and replace components in your design
• Generating and understanding component interfaces and registration
• Packaging designs with To_Layout
• Creating design viewpoints and back annotation viewpoints
• Use Design Manager to release designs

Key Topics

• The Falcon Framework
• Common user interface
• On-line documentation
• LMS terminology
• Creating a schematic
• Adding library parts
• Connecting parts
• Selection concepts
• Naming objects
• Checking and saving the design
• Creating a symbol
• Adding properties
• Creating a bus
• Understanding the relationship between symbols and parts
• Design hierarchy and functional blocks
• Updating and replacing instances
• Design viewpoints
• Back annotations
• Applying viewpoints to schematics
• Component interfaces
• Creating more than one symbol or schematic
• Invoking to_layout
• Configuring to_layout
• Managing design data
• Releasing a design