Overview

RapidPart is a Cadence tool that can be used to generate body diagrams as well as the corresponding chips_prt files automatically. This is very helpful because it saves time both in the drawing of the part itself and in the creation of syntactically correct chips_prt files, as well as making editing an existing part rather painless.

Getting Started

1. To start RapidPart, go to your working directory and type:
   rapidpart &
2. This will create a window with four buttons: EXIT, SETUP, PART, and UTILITIES. To create a part, click on PART.
3. Clicking on PART brings up the PART SPECIFICATION window. Type in the name of the new part you want to create in the PART NAME field.
4. After typing in your part name, a LOGICAL PIN COUNT window will appear. Just type 1 or something here. You will be able to add more pins later, using the ADD PIN command.
5. To edit the dummy pin that RAPIDPART automatically created, just click on the fields that you want to edit. Edit the PIN NAME, add a PIN NUMBER, and specify the appropriate PIN TYPE and POSITION.
6. To add more pins, click on the ADD PIN button. This will create an ADD PIN window. Specify the appropriate fields and click ADD when you are done.
7. When you have finished creating the part, click on SAVE to save your part specification. Then, click on GENERATE.
8. This will create a GENERATE window. Clicking on DONE will create a library directory, whose name is specified in the LIBRARY NAME field, in your working directory. Inside the library directory, RAPIDPART will create another directory for the part, whose name is specified in the PART NAME field. Inside this part directory, RAPIDPART will place the body and/or chips_prt files.
9. Use Concept to to view your newly created part.

This is a "fix it yourself" page, located at ${CHEOPS_BASE}/WWW/cadence/rapidpart.html