What's Good About ADW’s Library Revision Manager and Browser? Check out the ADW16.3 Release and See!

Here are just some of the new capabilities available in the ADW16.3 Allegro Design Workbench (ADW) Library Revision Manager (LRM) and Component Browser (CB)

• LRM:
  • Detects deleted parts and models
• Component Browser:
  • Identifies parts removed
  • Identifies pre-released parts
  • Identifies parts with lifecycle  warnings
• Design_reports
  • Pre-release models and parts
  • Deleted models and parts

Some features of fixing deleted parts / models:

• Navigate to the impacted instances
  • Use the “Load Instances” and then “Highlight Instance” from LRM
• For deleted parts
  • Use “modify” from Allegro Design Entry HDL (DEHDL) to select parts from same part name
  • Use design_reports for suggested replacements
• For deleted models
  • Use “replace” from DEHDL to select new part
• Re-run LRM / design reports to validate that the design is clean

Please share your experiences with the new ADW LRM features.

Jerry "GenPart" Grzenia