Hi Everyone,
Barry Olney wrote:
>We changed our component orientation, years ago, to pin 1 - top right in
>order to comply with our European technology partners.
Who is "we" ?
Was this ever published as a standard by a governing body?
Which European technology partners?
It great to generalise about something that supposedly occurred years ago
but how about some facts.
>There are many Jedec standards at URL http://www.jedec.org I thought
>the issue in question was covered in the EIA-JED-95 standard?
I have looked at this standard on Barry's recommendation and cannot see that
it covers this issue at all. It is a mechanical standard for component
outlines and does not include all polarised components anyway.
It's great to quote standards but one should see if they are relevant to
this issue first.
As far as I can see there is not an official standard for this issue and the
industry has therefore created its own default standard with pin1 to the
bottom left as seen in the majority of responses to my original question
which was sent also to the Mentor Uers Group and Cooper and Chyan Technology
user group.
Best Regards,
Paul Arklay
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Barry Olney wrote:
>You are right Jack in that we need to create our libraries and use
>design rules to suit the end process.
>
>We changed our component orientation, years ago, to pin 1 - top right in
>order to comply with our European technology partners.
>
>There are many Jedec standards at URL http://www.jedec.org I thought
>the issue in question was covered in the EIA-JED-95 standard?
>
>Cheers,
>
>Barry Olney
>
>Olson, Jack C wrote:
>>
>> Well, SOMEONE is missing the point.... <grin>
>>
>> Yes, you can create stuff any way you like, but since he has a CHOICE
what
>> orientation to build them, and since it doesn't matter to the CAD
operator
>> what orientation they are, it seems logical and intelligent to wonder if
the
>> ASSEMBLER might have a preference, eh?
>>
>> If you build a library component and plop it into your design, and don't
>> rotate it, at the end of the design cycle when you create your pick and
>> place files for the assembler, that component will be listed as zero
degrees
>> rotation, right? If you build a SMT resistor vertically, no matter how
you
>> rotate it in the database, the rotation in the data file will be useless
>> because SMT resistors are packaged horizontally on a reel. The operators
>> know this, so they check rotations before they start, but wouldn't it be
>> nice if we could get MOST OF THEM right in the library? Sometimes you
can't
>> because some ICs come on reels horizontally, and some come packaged in
>> sticks and come out vertically, so you have to modify some rotations no
>> matter what. But all I am saying is that if you know what your vendor is
>> using, why not make it easy for him and TRY to supply good data?
>>
>> Still, you can never win... here at Intel we are asked NOT to place
>> components in the same orientation as they come on the reel, because the
>> type of pick-and-place machine we use rotates the head 180 degrees as it
is
>> moving from the reel to the board, and then will have to rotate another
180
>> to get back to the same orientation, which wastes a whole tenth of a
second
>> (perish the thought!). So, you can never learn enough in this business,
>> right?
>>
>> Onward thru the fog, Jack
>>
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