JPH1166142A - Group equal-length wiring system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To eliminate the need for condition extraction, manual wiring, and check man-hours and to improve design quality by performing automatic wiring for wires which extend between components in a wiring pattern on a printed board and require group equal-length wiring. SOLUTION: A circuit file 10 is a file stored with circuit information on a logic circuit in the form of data and is inputted to a net name imparting part 11. The net name imparting part 11 after giving a symbol discriminating a connection of group equal-length wiring from other connections extracts data having conditions set by a condition extraction part 12, a net connection part 13 groups the data having the same conditions, and an automatic wiring part 14 performs automatic wiring. This automatic wiring part 14 wires and stores group equal-length wires between components on the printed board to arbitrary wiring length. Namely, the wiring between the components is carried out with the equal wiring length. Thus, net names in the range covering components to be wired to equal length can be recognized as the same connection.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to a printed circuit board CA
For D system, in particular, wiring on printed circuit board
The present invention relates to a group equal length wiring system in a printed circuit board CAD system designed using D (Computer Aided Design) technology.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A conventional equal-length wiring / balanced wiring check system has only a function of checking only a net name unit between components, and has a different net name extending over a plurality of components. With regard to the long condition, wiring and checking were performed manually after extracting the target net name manually.

For example, Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. Hei 4-243486 discloses a printed circuit board CAD system which automatically checks wiring requiring equal-length wiring among wiring patterns on the printed circuit board, thereby eliminating the need for a check man-hour. Has been proposed.

[0004]

As described above, the conventional printed circuit board CAD system has the following problems.

The first problem is that when setting equal length conditions, it is possible to define only in units of nets, and it is not possible to define equal length conditions including a plurality of nets spanning between components. is there.

[0006] The second problem is that a large number of man-hours are required since the wiring and checking work are also performed manually after the condition extraction spanning between components is performed manually.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Accordingly, the present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned problems of the prior art, and an object of the present invention is to make it possible to perform equal-length conditions between parts by automatic wiring, thereby improving design quality and design man-hours. It is to provide a printed circuit board CAD system which enables the above.

[0008]

In order to achieve the above object, a group equal length wiring system according to the present invention comprises a symbol which regards connections having different net names between components as equal internal connections in equal length wiring; A net name assigning means for assigning a symbol for identifying a group equal length, an extracting means for extracting a condition given to the net name, and a net combining means for joining net names which are to be connected in the same manner by the extracted condition. Automatic wiring means for automatically performing wiring such that equal-length wiring has an arbitrary wiring length on a printed circuit board based on the net connection information.

[0009]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below. The printed circuit board CAD system of the present invention includes:
In the preferred embodiment, the circuit file (FIG. 1)
In 10), after assigning a common group isometric symbol to a net name for a range to be set to a group isometric length, a connection having a different net name spanning between parts is designated as an equal length, and a net connection symbol is assigned to the connection. A net name assigning means (11 in FIG. 1) for connection and definition, and a net name for which a group equal length condition is set is extracted, and a group equal length symbol, a net connection symbol, and a net name are defined as one unit (FIG. 3). (See FIG. 1) and a net name having a net connecting symbol of the same symbol within the range of the group isometric symbol and connecting the net names to obtain net connecting information (see FIG. 4). A net connecting means (13 in FIG. 1) to generate and an automatic wiring means (FIG. 1) for automatically wiring a group equal length wiring extending between components on a printed circuit board with an arbitrary wiring length based on the net connection information. It includes a 14), a. Each of these means is preferably realized by a program executed on a computer constituting the printed circuit board CAD system.

In the embodiment of the present invention, different net names extending between components to be made into equal-length wirings are given symbols for deeming the same connection, and after performing net synthesis deeming to be the same intra-connection, the group is set to have the same length. Perform grouping to be wired and perform group equal length wiring by automatic wiring.

As described above, in the embodiment of the present invention, a net name in a range extending between components to be set to the same length can be recognized as the same connection. , The check is unnecessary.

[0012]

Next, in order to describe the above-mentioned embodiment of the present invention in more detail, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a system configuration according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, in the present embodiment, a circuit file 10 is a file in which circuit information of a logic circuit is converted into data and stored, and is input to a net name assigning unit 11. The net name assigning unit 11 assigns a symbol that can be distinguished from the other connections to the connections to be group-equal-length-wired, then extracts the data set in the condition extracting unit 12 and sets the same condition by the net combining unit 13. Are automatically grouped by the automatic wiring unit 14.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example in which conditions are given to the circuit file 10 by the net name giving unit 11. As shown in FIG. 2, in the case where the connections between the components A, B, D, and C are wired in groups of the same length, the net names (NET) 1 to 8 assigned to each connection are used, Add a group equal length condition that spans.

First, in the net name assigning section 11, a group equal length symbol 11a (for example, G
After 1) is assigned to the net names (NET) 1 to 8, a net connection symbol 11b (for example, L1) is assigned to one of the features of the present invention, that is, designation of equal length across parts, and Define it as a connection. For example, group isometric symbol G1
, For example, NET1 and NET5 are assigned a net connection symbol L1, and NET2 and NE
The net connection symbol L2 is assigned to T6.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a condition extraction unit 12
FIG. 6 is a diagram schematically illustrating an example of a result output in a condition order. FIG. 4 is a diagram schematically illustrating an example of an output result obtained by combining the group equal length conditions by the net combining unit 13.

The condition extraction unit 12 extracts net names 1 to 8 for which group equal length conditions are set, and as shown in FIG.
b, net names, etc., in order of setting condition unit, and the net coupling unit 13
As shown in FIG. 4, for a net name having the same symbol net connection symbol 11b within the range of (G1, L1, N
Data is processed as in (ET1 + NET5).

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of a wiring result obtained when wiring is performed on a printed circuit board based on a group equal length condition.
As shown in FIG. 5, the automatic wiring unit 14 accommodates a group equal-length wiring between the component A and the component C on the printed circuit board with an arbitrary wiring length. That is, in FIG.
Equal length wiring spanning between parts, (NET1 + NET5)
= (NET2 + NET6) = (NET3 + NET7) =
Wired as (NET4 + NET8).

[0019]

As described above, according to the present invention,
By automatically routing the wiring that requires group equal-length wiring that spans between components in the wiring pattern on the printed circuit board, the condition extraction, manual wiring, and check man-hours are not required, thereby improving the design quality. To play.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a system configuration according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram for explaining one embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example in which a condition is given to a circuit file 10 by a net name giving unit 11.

FIG. 3 is a diagram for explaining one embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating an example of a result of outputting given conditions in condition order by a condition extraction unit 12.

FIG. 4 is a diagram for explaining one embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 11 is a diagram illustrating an example of an output result obtained by combining group equal length conditions by a net combining unit.

FIG. 5 is a diagram for explaining one embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 9 is a diagram schematically illustrating a wiring result obtained by performing wiring on a printed circuit board based on group equal length conditions.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Circuit file 11 Net name assigning part 12 Condition extraction part 13 Net connecting part 14 Automatic wiring part 11a Group isometric symbol 11b Net connecting symbol NET1-8 Net name

Claims (3)

[Claims] In the equal-length wiring, a connection that has a different net name between components is regarded as a same internal connection,
A symbol for identifying a group equal length, a net name assigning means for assigning, a extracting means for extracting a condition assigned to the net name, and a net name to be connected in the same according to the extracted condition A printed circuit board CAD system, comprising: net connecting means; and automatic wiring means for automatically performing wiring such that equal-length wiring has an arbitrary wiring length on the printed circuit board based on the net connecting information. 2. A method for assigning a common group isometric symbol to a net name for a range to be set to a group equal length to circuit connection information, and then specifying a connection having a different net name extending between parts as an equal length, and assigning a net connection symbol to the net connection symbol. A net name assigning means for assigning and defining connections within the same, and extracting net names for which group equal length conditions are set,
A condition extraction unit that sorts group isometric symbols, net connection symbols, and net names in units, and combines net names for net names with the same symbol net connection symbol within the range of group isometric symbols to obtain net connection information A printed circuit board CAD comprising: a net connecting means for generating; and an automatic wiring means for automatically wiring a group equal length wiring extending between components on the printed circuit board with an arbitrary wiring length based on the net connection information. system. (A) Assigning a common group isometric symbol to a net name in the circuit connection information for a range to be set to a group equal length, and then specifying a connection having a different net name extending between parts as an equal length designation. Means for giving connection symbols and defining connections and connections within the same; (b) extracting net names for which group isometric conditions are set, and sorting the group isometric symbols, net connection symbols, and net names into units (C) means for generating net connection information by connecting net names for net names having the same net connection symbol within the range of group isometric symbols; and (d) printing based on the net connection information. Means for automatically routing a group equal-length wiring extending between components on a substrate with an arbitrary wiring length, a program for causing the means (a) to (d) to function on a computer Recording medium on which is recorded.