Orcad EDIF2 to Composer

[Tim]

Hi,

Has anyone had any experience using EDIF/EDIF200 to convert schematics
from Orcad to Composer?

I tried a couple of designs but in Composer the symbols seemed to be
come through as just a flat line with pins and they are very small
compared to the nets.

My next step is to look at the .cfg EDIF export file options but wanted
to see if anyone new the answer first.

Thanks in Advance,
Tim

Orcad - 10.5
Composer - 5141

 

[Jimka]

I've worked a bit with EDIF and i find there there is normally lots
more information in the edif file than edifin is able to do something
with. You can use Common Lisp to massage the edif file and
extract information out of it that you need and create files very
easy for SKILL to read. This allows you to easily augment
your edifin flow.

For example, you can write SKILL code
that will put reasonable pins on the edifin symbols.
VCAD has a Common Lisp program for structually
translating and extract information from your edif file. it is called
edifSX.
If you are interested in edifSX please contact manfred@cadence.com

good luck.
-jim



Tim wrote:

Hi,

Has anyone had any experience using EDIF/EDIF200 to convert schematics
from Orcad to Composer?

I tried a couple of designs but in Composer the symbols seemed to be
come through as just a flat line with pins and they are very small
compared to the nets.

My next step is to look at the .cfg EDIF export file options but wanted
to see if anyone new the answer first.

Thanks in Advance,
Tim

Orcad - 10.5
Composer - 5141

 

[Tim]

Thanks Jimka!

I might have to write some skill code to edit the file. I created a
..cfg configuration file for Orcad Edif export and finally got the
symbols to come through the correct size and with the connectivity. My
problem now is that it seems that all the pin options in Orcad aren't
supported in Edif conversion. The pins which are lines with a width
came through but the pins that are a line with 0 width didn't. I didn't
have any symbols that had dot pins but I suspect they are a problem
too.

Thanks Again,
Tim