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The front end of the CadEnhance PART_BUILDER ToolPartBuilders Pin-Extract Function, is focused on obtaining Pin Information for an electronic component, quickly, efficiently and most important, accurately . At a minimum, the tool needs to gather the pin name, pin number, and pin type (input, output, inout, power) for every pin of the component. Other information like the electrical io standard used for the pin or an alternate name for the pin can also be stored.
With the large variety of electronic components and manufacturers in today's market, it stands to reason that there are many different formats and or file types that can be used to provide the information. CadEnhance provides support for many industry standard and vendor file types that provide this kind of pin information, and can easily be extended to work with new formats as they are developed.
In some cases the only available pin information is a table or list in a datasheet. In these cases, the input must be compiled manually by the user and CadEnhance provides several efficient methods for inputting this information using text files built in a text editor or a SpreadSheet.
For low pin count parts it is a relatively simple task to enter the information, but as pin counts grow into the hundreds and thousands, processing the pin information from some available standard files becomes imperative
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