{"id":1271,"date":"2017-07-05T08:00:56","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T15:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/eagle\/blog\/?p=1271"},"modified":"2023-09-25T13:19:46","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T20:19:46","slug":"eagle-pro-webinar-multi-part-component-creation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/eagle-pro-webinar-multi-part-component-creation\/","title":{"rendered":"EAGLE Pro Webinar – Multi-Part Component Creation"},"content":{"rendered":"

EAGLE Pro Webinar – Multi-Part Component Creation<\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n\n\n

Ever play that game as a kid when all of your friends told you to count to 100 before looking for their hiding spot? 1, 2, skip a few, 99, 100! As fun as it was back then, that\u2019s also kind of how pin counts seem to progress in our electronic components. We all start off with the simple building blocks. Things like capacitors or resistors or LEDs that mostly have two pins. But this is just the beginning.  <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

But before you know it, you soon find yourself dealing with integrated circuits, FPGAs, and maybe even microchips. And that\u2019s when you might be staring down at 100, 200, 600 pins and more! Managing this growing complexity of components is no easy task, especially when you have to create the parts yourself. But worry not, we\u2019ve got just the webinar for you in our EAGLE Pro series. <\/span>Introducing Multi-Part Component Creation<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n

From a Walk to a Run<\/h2>\n\n\n

Components are more than just a resistor or a capacitor. Outside of the family of basic passive electronic components, you have a whole slew of active parts that slowly ramp up the pin counts, and you might be having trouble keeping up.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

After all, what exactly do you do when you have to make a 128 pin connector in your PCB design tool? Or a 600 pin FPGA? And more importantly, how are you supposed to fit all of the growing complexity of your libraries onto a single schematic sheet?<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here\u2019s your first 100-pin FPGA, good luck<\/em>!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Back in the early days of passive components, it was a simple matter of dropping down two pins for a resistor, giving it an outline, and calling it a day. Same thing for the package, add a couple of pads, a silkscreen outline, and bam, you\u2019re done. All of this could be handled on one single schematic sheet, making it a piece of cake.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

But then, my friends, you encounter your first massive component, it has 100 pins, multiple parts, and you have absolutely no idea where to even begin. If this sounds like your situation, then you might be asking yourself some questions like:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n