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Relay Design Flow

Device pins are assigned group codes in this flow. Each group code indicates that the pin belongs to a set of pins that typically have their wires grouped together in the final wiring. Often each group of wires is on a separate harness.

For example:

A relay could be defined in Capital Component Manager as follows:

Two pin groups are defined:

Pins 3, 1 and C2
Pins 4, 2 and C1

Wires for each of these groups are grouped together as they connect to the relay - one group from either side of the mounting rail.

The flow is as follows:

Define a device in Capital Component Manager. Use the Pin Group column on the Pin Attribute tab to assign grouping codes to pins. See Devices in the Capital Component Manager User Guide for more information about defining devices. As an alternative to creating a library part with pin groupings, you can set the Pin Group attribute for device pins directly in the Attributes section of the General tab of the Edit Properties dialog box for pins in Capital Logic Designer. If you choose this method, you skip step 2 in this flow. If you assign a library part to a device in Capital Logic Designer, the Pin Group attribute is set for the device pins according to the library definition. If a library device has both a footprint and a Pin Group attribute, the attribute is ignored.
Assign the part number to one or more devices in Capital Logic Designer. See Assigning a Library Part to an Object for more information about how to do this.
Associate the Capital Logic Designer design with a Capital Systems Integrator design (see Associating Logical Designs with the Topological Design) and place the devices in slots (either manually or automatically, see Placement of a Device or Ground Device in a Slot). Multiple relay devices could be placed in one slot that represents a rail which has several relays mounted on it.
If holes with the pin group names do not already exist on the slot, the system automatically adds new holes (with the pin group names) to the slot according to the number of pin groups defined for the device or devices in Capital Component Manager and maps the device pins to the holes. You can move the holes around the slot to an appropriate position and you can connect them to bundles. See Moving a Hole for more information.

Parent Topic:

Relays