creating a footprint

rob dickinson

Other Parts Discussed in Thread: TMS320C6472, AM3892

I'm sorry to start with a rant but

Six months ago I designed a PCB with a TMS320C6472 and I pretty much had to hand craft my schematic symbols.

I'm about to do the same with the AM3892.

For at least 10 years all the major cad tools have had the ability to import CSV based text files to create schematic symbols.

Come on TI, keep up! It is only 1031 pins how many hours and mistakes do I need to make.

Apologies if they are available but data I can't find is not particularly usefull.

over 14 years ago

0 Shusheng yang over 13 years ago

Prodigy 30 points

I‘m in your shoes now, any keys?

0 rob dickinson over 13 years ago in reply to Shusheng yang

Prodigy 20 points

We had several senior TI people over regarding this project. I found myself having to explain the problem in remarkable detail. It amazes me how few IC vendors understand PCB design.

They made some noises about the pin mux utility generating a CSV output file. I have no idea whether they bothered.

0 Shusheng yang over 13 years ago in reply to rob dickinson

Prodigy 30 points

I abstract a symbol from their reference design.

you can find the orcad schematic from http://support.spectrumdigital.com/boards/evm816x/revg/

good luck

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