User Guide

Preparing Your Design for
Board Layout
10
Overview
This chapter describes how to prepare your design for use
with a board layout program and has the following
sections:
Connectors
on page 10-277 describes placing connectors to
provide the interface between the PCB and the rest of the
system. This section also describes how to create
connector symbols.
Packaging the Parts in Your Design
on page 10-280 describes
the process of collecting individual gates into physical
packages and reassigning reference designators and gate
names to reflect how they are packaged.
Generating a Bill of Materials Report
on page 10-286 describes
how to generate a report listing the quantities of each
component type used in the design, along with
corresponding reference designators.
Swapping Pins
on page 10-291 describes how to swap pins
on a given gate.