IPC-7351 Land Pattern Naming Conventions of Packages

The IPC-7351A standard provides an intelligent land pattern naming convention that aids in communication between engineering, design and manufacturing. It specifies information on attributes such as component family, pin pitch, pin quantity, lead span etc.

Package names according to IPC-7351 Land Pattern Naming Convention standards have been added as additional package property for all elements in system libraries. IPC names can be used as search keys for browsing and searching libraries and will appear in output from List Generator.

Enhanced Display of Schematic Symbol Entry Names

Display of entry names in schematic symbols has been extended by MM Simulator and EDSpice pin assignment. This allows for instant check whether edited symbol has been properly set for simulation.

Enhanced Property Dialogs

The properties dialog of entries, padstacks, items, and texts in library editor are being auto covered. System recognizes automatically which type of Property dialog should be displayed depending on what type of item has been clicked on the screen. Previously it was controlled by setting tool options. These superfluous buttons have been removed

• Entry properties dialog
  The Property dialog to show entry properties has been enhanced with new features to change entry name, view symbol’s Mixed mode value, change mixed mode entry name, view symbol’s EDSpice value, change EDSpice entry name. Now Entry name, MM Simulator and EDSpice entry values can be changed within the enhanced entry property dialog.
• Padstack Properties dialog
  The Property dialog to show padstack properties has been enhanced with a new feature to add new padstack to the padstacks list so that the changing of padstacks can be done in an easier way within the dialog. New padstacks can be added to the list and can be assigned to the desired pad easily from the properties dialog.
• Symbol Properties dialog
  There is a functionality improvement in symbol properties dialog. The selected Mixed mode or EDSpice simulation model’s entries will be automatically assigned to the symbol from the first pin in an incrementing order. Thus manual way of entering simulation names is not necessary now. Editing of simulation entry values can be done manually in a preferred way from the entry properties dialog

About 50 specially requested parts have been added to system libraries.