Is there a ULP script for exporting pin names?

Am 16.03.2011 17:32, schrieb Telemachus:

Hi,

 

I have a 48-pin microprocessor, and I'd like to make a bus for it in my schematic. Is there a way to export the pin names of the device from the library in a comma-delimited fashion?

 

Regards,

Tele

EXPORT script ...

HELP EXPORT (enter)

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I think the idea is that given a schematic that contains a BUS called "D0..15" and also a device that contains a symbol that has pins called "D0", "D1", ..., "D15", to somehow aid the connection of all those pins to that bus, rather than having to connect them one at a time.  Or at least get the names of all of the pins for use in a BUS command (so you can generate "bus A[0..31],B[0..31],RESET,CLOCK,IOSEL[0..1]"...

That would be nice...

Alfred,

Vielen Dank! Das hat geklappt, aber mit mehrer Mühe als angedeutet wurde.

(1) Open library, File ==> Export ==> Script ==> Save as file with ".scr" extension

(2) Open file as text file (need to change extension to ".txt") and search for symbol (line = "Edit '[symbol name].sym';")

(3) Select and copy pin data, and paste into Excel spreadsheet (or equivalent)

(4) In Excel, "Data" ==> "Text to Colums", and delimit by spaces and single quotes, which will separate the actual pin names from all of the extra stuff on the same lines

(5) If any of your pin names had single quotes before delimiting, add them back again

(6) Copy entire column of pin names, and paste them TRANSPOSED into another column; delete original column of pin names

(7) Save as ".csv" file, and open up saved file in a basic text editor

Voilá! Now there is a string of pin names, comma-delimited. If anybody has a quicker way to obtain a comma-delimited pin-list, please post.

-Tele

Telemachus wrote:

>I have a 48-pin microprocessor, and I'd like to make a bus for it in my schematic. Is there a

>way to export the pin names of the device from the library in a comma-delimited fashion?

run the attached ulp in the schematic like "run makeBusFromPins IC1"

then draw your bus.

warning: that ulp is quick and dirty work. It may do what you want,

but ...

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Lorenz

How about the following ULP.

Run it like "run pinnames U1" in a schematic and it'll pop up a dialog box containing the list of pin names for that part.

This is sort of just a start, since it ought to do things like dealing with pins that have a common prefix, and individual gates on a particular sheet (which I can't do much with, having only the free version, but it IS a start, and a lot easier than dealing with export and a bunch of external programs.

Have I ever mentioned how much I love having this sort of ULP capability?  It's certainly a strong selling point that if EAGLE doesn't do quite what I want it do do "out of the box", there's a pretty good chance that it can be "easily" extended with new capabilities.  It's a bit of a shame that the intersection of "PCB designers who use EAGLE" and "Programmers who like programming in somewhat obscure languages" isn't a larger number of people.

On 3/18/11 1:08 AM, WestfW wrote:

How about the following ULP.

 

Here's the actual ULP.  Apparently posting at the element14 site causes

attachments to be lost before they get to the newsgroup, while

attachments posted to the newsgroup get lost before they reach element14.