Viewing posts from February, 2013
Making footprints and schematic symbols are some of the more onerous parts of using Eagle. But most ICs are pretty similar: they're either DIPs, some type of leaded SMD, or BGAs. So I made a Perl library that lets me enter a simple text description of a chip and it will generate a footprint and symbol for me and link them together into a complete device.
As an example, consider the Microchip MCP48X1 DAC chips. Here's their pinout: <<more...>>
I announced chapter 6 of "FPGAs?! Now What?" in March of 2012. Today, I'm "proud" to release chapter 7. I got it done in less than a year since the last one. Yay me! <<more...>>
