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nclark · 3rd September 2005, 02:50 PM

Hi, I've just started using eagle for my PCB and schematic designs but the microchip library just sucks, many of the 16F series are not listed and most of the 18F neither. I downloaded the microchip2 library from the eagle site but it's almost the same as the one in the package.

Does anyone have a complete microchip library for eagle?

g whiz · 14th November 2005, 07:00 PM

I don't have a library for you, but one thing that Microchip is very good at is keeping pinouts common for many of their parts going back many generations. Check to see if what you have is similar to an existing Eagle library part.

I don't know if you've tried Eagle's library editor, but it is fairly simple once you try a few parts.

Oznog · 14th November 2005, 08:12 PM

Make your own, it's not tough. Also all the 28 pin controller are mostly the same for pinouts so the old PIC16 28 pin parts in the Eagle lib are not too far off. Same for 40 pin.

Regrettably Eagle is very very bad for the way it did libraries and basically impossible to upgrade. Very, very bad lib management! Consider the case where you add a PIC18F4620 component to "microchip" library. If you upgrade to the next version of Eagle you overwrite the "microchip" lib entirely and lose your PIC18F4620. So you'd have to keep your old one, and there's no straightforward way to merge them. Manual copying is quite tedious and even error-prone. Thus Eagle can't really release an updated version of "microchip" nor can you accept someone else's "microchip" lib without kicking out your own changes. As far as I know Eagle is just not updating these libs.

But, let me say I do like Eagle despite the issues. It's very effective.

The conclusion I reached was it's a better idea to make your own "my_components" library, or at least copy "microchip" to "my_microchip" and modify that one.

pmacpeter · 12th February 2009, 02:07 AM

we are developing a switch by using the Microchip PIC16F723, if any guys interest to help, please let me know.
Peter

HATHA · 12th February 2009, 03:56 AM

hi
i think this may help you
Creating a new part in Eagle
SparkFun Electronics

pmacpeter · 12th February 2009, 06:27 AM

thanks a lot. Please let me know if any more can help.

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3rd September 2005, 02:50 PM	#1
nclark	Microchip library for eagle Hi, I've just started using eagle for my PCB and schematic designs but the microchip library just sucks, many of the 16F series are not listed and most of the 18F neither. I downloaded the microchip2 library from the eagle site but it's almost the same as the one in the package. Does anyone have a complete microchip library for eagle?

14th November 2005, 07:00 PM	#2
g whiz	I don't have a library for you, but one thing that Microchip is very good at is keeping pinouts common for many of their parts going back many generations. Check to see if what you have is similar to an existing Eagle library part. I don't know if you've tried Eagle's library editor, but it is fairly simple once you try a few parts.

14th November 2005, 08:12 PM	#3
Oznog	Make your own, it's not tough. Also all the 28 pin controller are mostly the same for pinouts so the old PIC16 28 pin parts in the Eagle lib are not too far off. Same for 40 pin. Regrettably Eagle is very very bad for the way it did libraries and basically impossible to upgrade. Very, very bad lib management! Consider the case where you add a PIC18F4620 component to "microchip" library. If you upgrade to the next version of Eagle you overwrite the "microchip" lib entirely and lose your PIC18F4620. So you'd have to keep your old one, and there's no straightforward way to merge them. Manual copying is quite tedious and even error-prone. Thus Eagle can't really release an updated version of "microchip" nor can you accept someone else's "microchip" lib without kicking out your own changes. As far as I know Eagle is just not updating these libs. But, let me say I do like Eagle despite the issues. It's very effective. The conclusion I reached was it's a better idea to make your own "my_components" library, or at least copy "microchip" to "my_microchip" and modify that one. __________________ I thought what I'd do was I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes.

12th February 2009, 02:07 AM	#4
pmacpeter	Microchip PIC16F723 we are developing a switch by using the Microchip PIC16F723, if any guys interest to help, please let me know. Peter

12th February 2009, 03:56 AM	#5
HATHA	hi i think this may help you Creating a new part in Eagle SparkFun Electronics

12th February 2009, 06:27 AM	#6
pmacpeter	thanks a lot. Please let me know if any more can help.