- 學位論文
機械與電子設計整合之研究與實作-使用中介資料格式IDF 3.0
The Research and Implementation for Integrating Mechanical and Electrical Design Using IDF 3.0
摘要
對許多企業而言，電子機械設計是產品設計流程中重要的一環，若想改善產品設計並促進產品創新，企業中電子與機械設計工程師就必須協同合作；然而，要在協同設計環境中整合電子與機械設計不是一件簡單的任務。 由於機械與電子零件的相互干涉更加重要與複雜，唯有透過產品設計工程師之間緊密的合作才能有效地解決此問題，而大多數公司的電子與機械設計都是由不同團隊負責，這些團隊大多為獨立作業，而這兩個設計領域中的傳統設計解決方案一直都彼此無法溝通，主要的原因是不同設計工程師使用的工具無法共享協同合作設計流程中重要的資料。因為各領域所使用的設計解決方案都是由不同軟體供應商開發的，而且使用的資料格式與架構皆不同，因此為了協同合作，就必須建立資料共享與交換的形式。 電子設計(ECAD)-機械設計(MCAD) 協同合作必須依賴資料交換，如此一來才能在完整電子機械產品設計的前後關聯中，一起檢視機械組件的PCB ECAD資料與3D MCAD模型。使用不同的系統，來實行上下游整合作業時，目前最廣泛運用的資料格式是Intermediate Data Format (IDF)。IDF是一個由Mentor Graphics發展出來的公開標準，讓ECAD及MCAD系統之間能整合，許多ECAD廠商都選擇了支援IDF，包含Cadence, Mentor Graphics, Zuken等。 因此我們研究了以IDF 3.0版本加上客製化程式來解決ECAD與MCAD在做資料交換時因雙方各自建立的零件資料庫不一致所產生的問題。透過程式所執行的零件轉換後，在設計資料交換與設計整合上有效的加速設計時程與減少設計錯誤的發生。
並列摘要
For many enterprises, the electronic and mechanical design is an important step in product design process. The electronic and mechanical design engineers must collaborate with each other for product innovation and product design improvement. However, it is not an easy task to integrate the electronic and mechanical design in a collaborated design environment. As the interference between mechanics and electronic components becomes more important and complicated, this problem can only be solved effectively with close collaboration between product design engineers. But in most companies the electronic design and mechanical design are performed by independent teams from different departments, thus the conventional design solutions from these two fields can not communicate with each other. This is because the tools used by different design engineers cannot share important data during the design process. Since the design solutions of each field are developed by different software suppliers, each with their own data formats and architectures, for collaboration, a common format for data sharing and exchange will be needed. The collaboration between electronic Computer-Aided Design (ECAD) and mechanical Computer-Aided Design (MCAD) depends on the data exchange so that the PCB ECAD data and 3D MCAD model of mechanical components can be inspected together for relevance before and after the complete electronic and mechanical designs. Intermediate Data Format (IDF) is the most widely used format for data exchange to integrate different upstream and downstream systems. IDF is an open standard developed by Mentor Graphics to allow integration between ECAD and MCAD systems. Many ECAD vendors support IDF, including Cadence, Mentor Graphics, Zuken and so on. In this thesis, we design a program using IDF version 3.0 and a customized procedure to solve the inconsistencies between ECAD component database and MCAD component database at data exchange. By converting components for data exchange at design integration, the design schedule can be effectively accelerated and the design errors can be reduced.