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--- icid [2020/04/24 15:18] – [sources] kingkevin
+++ icid [2022/01/27 14:02] – [database] kingkevin
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 ====== database ======
-I created a database of part pinouts based on the models provided by the chip vendors.
+I created a database of part pinouts based on the models provided by the chip vendors, distributors, and other part search engines.
-The [[https://icid.cuvoodoo.info/|ICID search engine]] allows to search parts by vendor/manufacturer, package, pin count, and most importantly by setting pin constrains.
+The [[https://icid.cuvoodoo.info/|ICID search engine]] allows to search parts by manufacturer, package, pin count, and most importantly by setting pin constrains.
-To build the database, I used following model types provided by the vendor:
+To build the database, I parse models in the following file format:
   * IBIS: used to do analogue simulations (e.g. *spice). The model quality is very mixed (it does not often provide the complete pinout).
   * BSDL: used to do boundary scan electronic testing. This is generally of good quality, but is only provided for micro-controllers which support JTAG.
-  * BXL: a proprietary symbol and footprint library. This is not provided by all vendors and for all parts, but its support is growing and the larger vendors provide BXL files for the most (popular) parts.
+  * BXL: a proprietary symbol and footprint library. This is not provided by all vendors and for all parts, and often intended/reserved for UltraLibrarian (which provides exports for most CAD software)
+  * EAGLE: most part search engines (UltraLibrarian, SnapEDA, Octopart, ...) all to export the footprint to the Fusion format (previously known as EAGLE, and the format has been kept)
 ====== searching ======