{"id":3356,"date":"2014-11-03T06:06:57","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T13:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mentor.com\/jimmartens\/?p=3356"},"modified":"2025-03-26T08:41:02","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T12:41:02","slug":"learn-about-the-12-component-properties-your-pcb-library-should-never-be-without","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/2014\/11\/03\/learn-about-the-12-component-properties-your-pcb-library-should-never-be-without\/","title":{"rendered":"Learn About The 12 Component Properties Your PCB Library Should Never be Without"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PCB design is a complicated task, partially because each design task has an effect on the outcome of the rest of the design stages.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3362 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2014\/10\/ducks-in-a-row-520x346.jpg\" alt=\"ducks-in-a-row\" width=\"454\" height=\"302\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Get your ducks in a row !<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Of course, you need to design your schematic, make sure you have no signal- and power-integrity issues, place your components, route your board, make sure your design can be manufactured, and so forth. But how much more complicated is it when the very basics, the library upon which you build your design, are poorly planned and poorly implemented?<\/p>\n<p>Before your first schematic symbol ever touches the first sheet of your design, you need to set up your project library. <a href=\"http:\/\/pcdandf.com\/pcdesign\/index.php\/current-issue\/241-designer-s-notebook\/9680-designers-notebook-1411\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read this article<\/a> to learn more about the twelve component properties you really should pay special attention to, to make your life a lot easier down the road.<\/p>\n<p>To read the full article click <a title=\"12 Component Properties No PCB Library Should Lack\" href=\"http:\/\/pcdandf.com\/pcdesign\/index.php\/current-issue\/241-designer-s-notebook\/9680-designers-notebook-1411\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.\u00a0 Also, if you want to learn more about how to ensure your design library content is accurate and reliable &#8211; download this whitepaper entitled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pads.com\/resources\/overview\/six-things-you-want-to-have-in-your-desktop-pcb-design-library-0504f23a-5cad-4f5b-a377-cc4b5412104b?cmpid=9049\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Six Things You Want to Have in Your Desktop PCB Design Library<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for reading,<\/p>\n<p>Danit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PCB design is a complicated task, partially because each design task has an effect on the outcome of the rest&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84471,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84471"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10273,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3356\/revisions\/10273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3356"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=3356"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=3356"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}