Device pin mapping (Connect)

[jonas.juden]

Is there some way to automatically map device symbol pins to footprint pins? I need to make device for 500 pin FPGA and it would be quite some task to one by one go them through. Xilinx is providing table where pins are listed in correct order. Is there maybe some script or 3rd party software where that mapping can be done?

[jorge_garcia]

Hi @jonas.juden,

I hope you're doing well. See if you can get a BSDL file from XILINX. If you can then there's a ULP you could use that will create the full part for you. It's called make-symbol-device-package-bsdl.ulp would be worth a try.

Let me know if there's anything else I can do for you.

Best Regards,

[jonas.juden]

Thanks Jorge,

I actually found that ULP myself and also found BSDL-file for that device. I was able to use that script successfully. Only issue was that BSDL-file pin names were not what I would liked them to be. There is also pin mapping in .txt form provided by Xilinx where correct pin names are used. I was able to parse pin to pad mapping from that file using the script. There was some weird issue once I tried to generate device, symbol and footprint from mapping parsed from the text file. For some reason symbol is broken. It is created and shows in the library but it can't be opened for edit nor attached to the device. If trying to delete it whole Fusion will crash.

I tried using the script with different ways but did not succeed to generate usable symbol so i gave up and ended up making pin to pad connection manually

[jorge_garcia]

Hi @jonas.juden ,

I hope you're doing well. I'm glad you found a solution but disappointed the symbol didn't work. For future reference one thing you can do is let the script run as is and then after words going into the symbol and updating the pin names. All of the connections will stay intact, maybe simpler than trying to adjust the parser.

Let me know if there's anything else I can do for you.

Best Regards,