Microchip Technology and Accelerated Designs Offer 'Ultra Librarian Reader'

Microchip Technology, a provider of microcontroller and analog semiconductors, and Accelerated Designs announced that they have collaborated on an Ultra Librarian Reader (ULR) tool to provide Microchip's customers with schematic symbols and Printed Circuit Board (PCB) footprints for Microchip's entire product portfolio, including Microchip's 8-, 16- and 32-bit PIC microcontrollers, dsPIC Digital Signal Controllers (DSCs), Serial EEPROMs and Analog and Interface products.

Providing components based on parametric data through the ULR allows PCB designers to reliably create consistent quality CAD entities to an established standard with minimal effort. The companies stated that this free download service will save designers valuable time when working with Microchip's products and accelerate time to market for their designs.

Both PCB footprints and schematic symbols are available for free download in a vendor-neutral format, which can then be exported to EDA CAD/CAE design tools--including the newly released Cadsoft Eagle support--using the ULR. The standard Microchip footprints generated by the ULR are based on the IPC-7351 specification.

The ULR is a subset of the complete Accelerated Designs Ultra Librarian toolset, and generates components and their attributes in virtually any EDA CAD/CAE format. An enhanced version of the Accelerated Designs Ultra Librarian software is also available for purchase. The enhanced package enables software models to be modified and auto-generated to meet any user-defined requirement.

"The Ultra Librarian Reader is a free and easy tool for designers to get PCB footprints and schematic symbols for every format and every Microchip product," said Rodger Richey, director of Applications for Microchip's Advanced Microcontroller Architecture Division. "This is one more tool to help customers accelerate time to market for their products and make the design processes easier."

Accelerated Designs provides integrated circuit vendors, electronic manufacturers and electronic engineers with a one-stop source of data for all computer-aided design (CAD), simulation, 3D models and other engineering.

Free ULR tool download:

http://www.microchip.com/CAD.

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