ICD Management overview

The ICD Management panel in Connectivity Hub is where you refresh, save, assign, and compare ICDs (Interface Control Documents) against your Platform Component connectivity.

Available actions

• Refresh ICD data — pull the latest ICD content (e.g. after someone else has revised it).
• Open / Save / Revise ICD — the standard document lifecycle actions on an ICD.
• ICD Assignment — assign an ICD to a component, auto-assign, or remove an existing association.
• Create a Functional Design from ICDs — generate a detailed schematic-level Functional Design from a set of ICDs (see Reference design pattern).
• Component Visualization & ICD Compare — visualize synthesized component connectivity and compare it against the ICD's defined connectivity.

Assignment actions in detail

Action	What it does
Assign ICD to Component	Manually associate a specific ICD with the selected component.
Auto-Assign ICD	Let Capital determine and assign the matching ICD automatically.
Remove ICD Association	Detach the component from its currently-assigned ICD.
View ICD	Open the ICD for inspection.
Create/Update ICD	Create a new ICD, or update an existing one — see Save modes for exactly how this differs from Overwrite.
Overwrite ICD	Replace an existing ICD's content entirely.
Revise ICD	Create a new revision of an ICD.

Visualizing and comparing connectivity

• View Component Connectivity — visualize the synthesized connectivity of the component, including pin mapping.
• Compare Component to ICD Connectivity — visualize and compare the synthesized component connectivity against the ICD's connectivity; differences are highlighted in red. This is the fastest way to spot a mapping gap or mismatch before saving/publishing an ICD.

See ICD server configuration for how ICDs are stored/retrieved (Capital Device Modeler vs. local XML files).