User Guide

Generating a Bill of Materials Report
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User Defined Component Information
You can display user-specific component information
(such as, costs and in-house part numbers) in the Bill of
Materials report. The Bill of Materials report will take a
component description file as input.
The component description file (
.cdf extension) is a
user-created and maintained text file that contains
component information such as cost, supplier name and
in-house order numbers. To facilitate extraction of this
information from an external component database, each
file entry must be in comma-separated format, without
spaces, as follows:
<component name>,<footprint name>,
<manufacturing ID>,<attribute
name>,<attribute value>
When you specify more than one user-defined property
for a given component type, you must give each entry
identical <component name>, <footprint name> and
<manufacturing ID> values. For example, two entries for
the LM124 component might appear as:
LM124,DIP14,LM124J-ND,COST,$4.05
LM124,DIP14,LM124J-ND,SUPPLIER,National
Each PSpice Schematics software installation is shipped
with a
user.cdf file that you can edit to create a custom
component description file.
Resistors and capacitors as a special case
When creating user defined attributes in the component
description file, resistors and capacitors are a special case.
Because different-valued resistors and capacitors (and
other components with a value attribute) do not have
unique manufacturing IDs, a VALUE entry must
immediately precede the corresponding set of entries
containing user-defined properties for a given device.
Commas must not
b
e use
d
b
etween
attributes.
Each set of component attributes must have
a unique manufacturing ID.
T
o display the attribute, it must be listed in
the Reports Setup under the File menu.