JP3213483B2 - Mounting board remodeling support method and apparatus - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a mounting board remodeling support method and apparatus for providing work information for remodeling and confirming a mounting board.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In order to reduce costs, it is required to reduce man-hours at a manufacturing site, and it is necessary to quickly create work information for remodeling and confirming a mounting board. This work information includes a remodeling version table, a mounting diagram showing the addition / deletion of mounted parts, a component details list, a wiring diagram showing the addition / deletion of wiring, a wiring detail list, and the cut point of the wiring pattern. There is a cutting diagram and cutting details list shown.

Conventionally, a print of these drawings and a detailed list on paper has been provided from the design department to the manufacturing department. For this reason, the remodeling information has to be used by associating a large number of paper drawings with the paper detailed list, and the use efficiency is low and it takes time. In addition, since the remodeling design information is provided in the form of a set of differences for each version in the order of the version number of the remodeling, unnecessary work such as addition and deletion of the same part or the same wiring at the same place occurs. , The remodeling work time became long.

[0004]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In view of the above problems, an object of the present invention is to provide a mounting board remodeling support capable of performing remodeling work in a shorter time by efficiently using remodeling information of the mounting board. It is to provide a method and an apparatus.

[0005]

According to the first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a mounting board remodeling support method for remodeling information including addition or deletion of a mounting component, addition or deletion of wiring, or disconnection of wiring to a mounting board. It is stored in the storage means in advance for each version number of the remodeling, the number of versions (the number of versions before and after the remodeling) and the board surface are specified, and the specified number of versions and the board surface are mounted on the processor. Display the figure on the display device for the modified part,
Entering a search command, causing the processor to display the remodeling information in detail in a list form on the display device in response to the search command, select remodeling information from the list, The modified part corresponding to the selected modification information in the mounting diagram is displayed in a special format so as to be distinguished from other parts. A special form of display is, for example,
Flashing display, highlight display, bold line display, component fill display, and display with special colors.

According to the first aspect, the detailed list information is easily and quickly associated with the remodeled portion in the mounting drawing, and the remodeling work information of interest can be obtained easily and quickly. It is possible to reduce the time for the work and the confirmation work after the remodeling. That is, the remodeling work can be performed in a shorter time by efficiently using the remodeling information of the mounting board.

In the first aspect of the first invention, the search command is issued by designating the part, wiring, or cutting to be searched, and the remodeling information of the specified search target is displayed on the processor. Cause the device to display details in list form. According to the first aspect, since a search target can be specified for each component, wiring, and cutting, the search is facilitated.

[0008] In a second aspect of the first invention, the types of objects displayed in the mounting drawing are made selectable, and the processor displays the mounting drawing for only the selected type of objects on the display device. To be displayed. According to the second aspect, it is possible to easily and quickly recognize the remodeling information of interest from the complicated remodeling information.

In the mounting board remodeling support method of the second invention, the remodeling information including addition or deletion of a mounting component, addition or deletion of wiring, or disconnection of wiring to a mounting board is transmitted from the first version for each version of the remodeling. It is stored in advance in a storage unit in the form of a set of differences for each version or only a difference from the version before, and the first version before remodeling.
And the second modified version number after the modification is specified, and the same object is added to the processor based on the difference modified information from the designated first modified version number to the second modified version number. The deletion pair is deleted, and the difference remodeling information after deletion is displayed on the display device in the form of a mounting diagram.

[0010] According to the second aspect of the present invention, since useless remodeling information is eliminated by erasure, the remodeling work can be performed in a shorter time by efficiently using the remodeling information. Second
A first aspect of the invention is a combination of the configuration of the second invention with the configuration of the second invention. The third invention and its aspects and the fourth invention and its aspects relating to the following apparatus are the first invention and its aspects and the second aspect of the above-described method, respectively.
The present invention corresponds to the invention and its aspects, and the corresponding effects described above can be obtained.

[0011] In the mounting board remodeling support apparatus of the third invention, remodeling information including addition or deletion of mounting components, addition or deletion of wiring, or cutting of wiring to the mounting board is stored in advance for each version of the remodeling. Designating the remodeling information storage means, the version number and the board surface, inputting a search command, selecting the remodeling information,
And input means for setting a display format, a display device, and a designated portion between the edition numbers and the mounting drawing of the board surface are displayed on the display device for the remodeled portion, and the remodeling is performed in response to the search command. A processor for displaying information in detail in a list format on the display device, and displaying a remodeled portion corresponding to the remodeling information selected from the displayed list in the mounting diagram in a special format. Have.

[0012] In the first aspect of the third invention, the input means can execute the search command by designating the part, the wiring, or the cut to be searched.
The specified remodeling information to be searched is displayed in detail in a list format on the display device. In a second aspect of the third invention,
The input means is capable of selecting a type of an object to be displayed in the mounting diagram, and the processor causes the display device to display the mounting diagram for only the selected type of object.

In the mounting board remodeling support device of the fourth invention, the remodeling information including addition or deletion of a mounting component, addition or deletion of wiring, or cutting of wiring to the mounting board is changed from the first version for each version number of the remodeling. A remodeling information storage unit pre-stored in the form of a set of differences for each version or only a difference from the previous version, and a first remodeling version number before remodeling and a second remodeling version number after remodeling are specified. Means, a display device, and differential modification information from the designated first modified version number to the second modified version number to delete a pair of addition and deletion of the same object, and to perform differential modification after erasure. A processor for displaying information on the display device in the form of a mounting diagram.

[0014] In the first aspect of the fourth invention, the remodeling information storage means stores the remodeling information for each version number of the remodeling, a set of differences from the first version for each version or only a difference from the previous version. The input means is capable of designating a first modified version number before modification and a second modified version number after modification, and the processor is capable of specifying the designated first modified version number. From the differential remodeling information up to the second remodeling version number, the pair of addition and deletion of the same object is erased, and the erased differential remodeling information is displayed on the display device in the form of a mounting diagram.

[0015]

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 2 shows a schematic configuration of the mounting board remodeling support device. This device includes a processor (computer) 10, an input device 12 and a display device 14 for interactively giving instructions and selections to the processor 10, and a remodeling design information file 16
This is a general hardware configuration including an external storage device such as a magnetic disk in which is stored an X-Y plotter 18 for outputting a necessary drawing in accordance with an instruction from the input device 12. The design information file 20 includes the design information of the first version and the modified design information of each subsequent version. The remodeling design information file 16 is obtained by extracting remodeling design information from the design information file 20.
Alternatively, it is extracted by another device.

FIG. 6 shows a simplified version of remodeling information for addition / deletion of mounted components. 6A to 6D each show 00.
1 to 004 editions are shown. Modification design order is 001-00
The order is four editions. The remodeling information is provided in the form of a set of differences for each version to avoid complication. For example, 0
The remodeling information of the 02 edition is 0 from the 000th edition (the first edition before the remodeling).
This is a set of difference information for the 01st version and difference information for the 001st version to the 002th version.

The difference information with respect to the first edition of the 001 edition is the addition of a part, which is expressed as ADD B / P. It is assumed that “B” includes a component identification code and mounting position information on the wiring board. / P is added.
Indicates that the deletion is a part. The difference information of the 002 edition against the 001 edition is ADD A / P, the difference information of the 003 edition against the 002 edition is DEL A / P ADD C / P, and the difference information of the 004 edition against the 003 edition is DEL C / P. Here, DEL represents deletion of a part.

There is no problem in remodeling one version at a time to a higher version, but in practice there is remodeling between various versions. For example, 00
In the case of remodeling from the 0th edition to the 003th edition, if the remodeling work is performed one by one in order, the ADD A / P in the 002th edition and the DEL A / P in the 003th edition become useless. Therefore, 00
From the difference remodeling information from the 0th version to the 003th version, a pair of addition and deletion of the same object, that is, a pair in which both operands of ADD and DEL match are deleted. By such a merge process, the difference information between the number of editions from the 000th edition to the 003th edition can be obtained without waste, so that the work time is reduced.

FIG. 7 is a simplified diagram showing remodeling information for adding and deleting wiring. FIGS. 7A to 7D respectively show 001 to 001.
004 version is shown. The difference information from the first edition of the 001 edition is the addition of wiring between AB and CD, and this is expressed as ADD AB / W ADD CD / W. / W indicates that addition / deletion is wiring.
The difference information of the 002 version with respect to the 001 version is DEL CD / W DEL E / F, and the difference information of the 003 version with the 002 version is DEL AB / W DEL GH / W. The difference information of the 004th edition with respect to the 003th edition is ADD I-J / W.

For example, when remodeling from the 000th edition to the 003th edition, the AD processing is performed by the merge processing using the above-mentioned symbols.
D AB / W and DEL AB / W are erased as a pair,
The ADD CD / W and the DEL CD / W are erased as a pair, and lean version number difference information from the 000th version to the 003th version is obtained. FIG. 8 shows simplified information of additional remodeling of the wiring pattern cut. FIGS. 8A to 8D show the 001 to 004 versions, respectively.

The difference information with respect to the first edition of the 001 edition is cuts at points a, b and c of the wiring pattern, which are represented as CUT a CUT b CUT c. The same applies to the 002 and subsequent versions.

FIG. 9 shows essential and unnecessary operations when the remodeling information for each version in FIGS. 6, 7 and 8 is combined into the remodeling information for two or more versions as described above. The work (versus the erased work) is shown in a table. In the figure, for example, the work version number 001 /
003 indicates the version number of the conversion from the 001 version to the 003 version. The remodeling information of the working version number 000/003 is equivalent to the remodeling information of the simple version number 003. The processing shown in FIG. 9 is performed by the processor 10 in FIG. 2 in response to a later-described work version designation from the input device 12 or automatically before the processing shown in FIG. Done.

FIG. 1 shows the display of the remodeling information, the detailed setting of the display mode, and the printing process by the apparatus shown in FIG. The remodeling information provided in this process is used in the remodeling work and its confirmation work. Hereinafter, the numerical values in parentheses indicate the step identification numbers in FIG. (50) The work version number list is displayed on the display device 14, and the work version number of the remodeling information to be viewed is specified. Also, the substrate surface is specified. The board surface is the mounting surface with the larger number of mounted components or the solder surface on the opposite side.

(52) The processor 10 determines in step 50
Display device 1 displays the work version number and the board surface mounting diagram specified in
4 is displayed. FIG. 3 shows an example of the display screen.
Various command buttons are displayed around the mounting diagram, and when these buttons are clicked with the mouse, the corresponding processing is performed. Among these commands, the zoom full, the zoom-in, the scale, the movement and the rotation are the same as those used in normal CAD.

(54) Click the search command button to proceed to step 56, click the setting command button to proceed to step 64, click the drawing print command button to proceed to step 66, and click the end command button to return to step 50. . (56) When the search command is clicked, a pull-down menu (not shown) for selecting one of the component, the wiring, and the wiring pattern cut as a search target is displayed.

(58) When a wiring is selected, a sub-window is opened and a detailed wiring list as shown in FIG. 4 is displayed. For example, the wiring 1 is the pin 1 at the mounting position AD14.
0 (198.120, 43.180) and the coordinates of pin 05 at the mounting position AD14 (198.120, 43.180).
35.560), which indicates that the wire is S1. For example, when wirings 1 and 2 are selected and the button in the upper left corner is clicked, this window is closed and the selected wiring is blinking displayed in the mounting diagram of FIG.

(60) When a part is selected in step 56, a sub-window is opened and a detailed parts list is displayed. When a part in the list is specified in the same manner as described above, the sub-window is closed and the selected part is closed. Blinks in the mounting diagram of FIG. (62) When a wiring pattern cut is selected in step 58, a sub-window is opened to display a detailed list of cut locations. When a cut location in the list is specified in the same manner as described above,
This sub-window is closed, and the selected cutting point is displayed blinking in the mounting diagram of FIG.

By the search in the above steps 58 to 62, detailed list information is easily and quickly associated with the remodeled portion in the mounting drawing, and the remodeling work information of interest can be obtained easily and quickly. Thus, the time for the remodeling work and the confirmation work after the remodeling can be shortened. (64) When the setting is selected in step 54, FIG.
A sub-window as shown in (1) is opened, and the display mode can be set in detail.

The setting items include a component classification, a model (a component identification code in a design drawing) and a seal (a model stamped on a component), a cut diagram, a connection diagram, a pattern diagram, a Gerber output diagram,
There are SMD (Surface Mount Device) components and DIP (Dual Inline Package) components. For each of these setting items, there is an ON button and an OFF button for selecting whether or not to display them in the mounting diagram of FIG.

When the setting item button is clicked and the detail list button is clicked, a sub-window for setting the setting item in more detail is opened. FIG.
(B) is a detailed list in the case where the setting item is “pattern diagram”, in which the layer number of the multilayer wiring board is designated and the corresponding O
When the “Pattern diagram” in FIG. 5A is turned on when the N button is clicked, the wiring pattern of the eighth layer is displayed in the mounting diagram in FIG. 3, and the relationship with the wiring is clear. It is used for the continuity test after remodeling.

The detailed list of "parts classification" in FIG. 5A is a list of parts classifications according to package forms such as QFP and SOP, and only parts of one or more selected classifications are mounted in FIG. It is displayed in the figure. The detailed list of "model / seal" shows individual components and their positions, and only one or more selected components are displayed in the mounting diagram of FIG. The detailed lists of “cut diagram” and “connection diagram” are to be selected when changing the board surface specified in step 50. There is no detailed list for SMD parts and DIP parts, and when this is turned on, all SMD parts or DIP parts are displayed in the mounting drawing.

Since the detailed settings as described above are reflected in the mounting diagram, it is possible to easily and quickly recognize the remodeling information of interest from the complicated remodeling information. (66) If printing is selected in step 54, a sub-window for specifying the paper size, paper orientation, etc. is opened, and when this is selected and the execution button is clicked,
The mounting diagram displayed in step 52 is the XY plotter 18.
Printed by the company and used as remodeling technical data.

[0033]

As described above, according to the first or third aspect of the present invention, detailed list information is easily and quickly associated with a remodeled portion in a mounting diagram, and remodeling work information of interest is provided. Can be obtained quickly and easily, and the time for remodeling work and confirmation work after remodeling can be shortened. Therefore, the remodeling work can be performed in a shorter time by efficiently using the remodeling information of the mounting board. This has the effect of becoming

According to the first aspect of the first or third invention,
Since the search target can be specified for each part, wiring and cutting,
The effect that search becomes easy is produced. According to the second aspect of the first or third aspect of the invention, it is possible to easily and quickly recognize the remodeling information of interest from the complicated remodeling information. According to the second or fourth invention,
Since the useless remodeling information is eliminated by erasure, the remodeling operation can be performed in a shorter time by using the remodeling information efficiently.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a flowchart illustrating a mounting board remodeling support method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating a schematic configuration of a mounting board remodeling support device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a view showing a display screen in step 52 of FIG. 1;

FIG. 4 is a view showing a window displayed in step 60 of FIG. 1;

FIG. 5 is a view showing a window displayed in step 64 of FIG. 1;

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing remodeling information of addition / deletion of a mounted component.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing remodeling information for adding / deleting wiring.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing modification information of a wiring pattern cut;

FIG. 9 is an explanatory diagram of merge processing of difference remodeling information.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Processor 12 Input device 14 Display device 16 Remodeling design information file 18 XY plotter 20 Design information file

Continuing from the front page (72) Inventor Yumi Terasawa 1015 Uedanaka, Nakahara-ku, Kawasaki City, Kanagawa Prefecture Inside Fujitsu Co., Ltd. Person Kazuki Kitamura 98-2 Unoki-nu, Unoki-cho, Kawakita-gun, Ishikawa Pref. Inside PFU Corporation (56) References JP-A-5-28209 (JP, A) JP-A-4-156677 (JP, A) (58) ) Surveyed field (Int.Cl. ⁷ , DB name) G06F 17/50

Claims (10)

(57) [Claims] 1. Modification information including addition or deletion of a mounting component, addition or deletion of wiring, or disconnection of wiring to a mounting board is stored in advance in a storage means for each version number of the remodeling. And the board surface is designated, the processor is displayed on the display device with the specified version number and the mounting diagram of the board surface for the modified portion, a search command is input, and the processor is responded to the search command. Displaying the remodeling information on the display device in the form of a list, selecting remodeling information from the list, and instructing the processor to modify the remodeling portion corresponding to the selected remodeling information in the mounting drawing. A method for supporting the remodeling of a mounting board, which is displayed in a special format so as to be distinguished from the part. 2. The search command is issued by designating the part, wiring, or cutting to be searched, and the processor displays, on the display device, remodeling information of the specified search target in a list format. The method according to claim 1, wherein 3. The type of the object displayed in the mounting drawing is made selectable, and the processor is caused to display the mounting drawing on the display device only for the target of the selected type. 3. The method for supporting remodeling of a mounting board according to claim 1. 4. Remodeling information including addition or deletion of a mounting component, addition or deletion of wiring, or cutting of wiring to a mounting board is provided for each version number of the remodeling, as a set of differences from the first version to one version or one version. The first modified version number before the modification and the second modified version number after the modification are stored in the storage means in advance in the form of only the difference from the version before the modification, and the designated first Second from the modified version of
Mounting / removal pair of the same object is deleted from the differential remodeling information up to the remodeled version number of the same, and the differential remodeling information after erasure is displayed on a display device in the form of a mounting diagram. Method. 5. A mounting board remodeling support method, wherein the configuration according to claim 4 is combined with the configuration according to any one of claims 1 to 3. 6. A remodeling information storage means in which remodeling information including addition or deletion of a mounting component to a mounting board, addition or deletion of a wiring line, or disconnection of wiring is stored in advance for each version number of the remodeling. Input means for designating a space and a board surface, inputting a search command, selecting remodeling information, and setting a display format, a display device, and a mounting diagram of the specified number of plates and the board surface Is displayed on the display device for the remodeled portion, the remodeling information is displayed on the display device in a list format in response to the search command, and the remodeling selected from the displayed list in the mounting drawing is performed. A processor for displaying a remodeled portion corresponding to information in a special format. 7. The input means can execute the search command by designating the part, wiring, or cutting to be searched, and the processor displays the remodeling information of the specified search target. The mounting board remodeling support device according to claim 6, wherein the device is displayed in a list format. 8. The input means is capable of selecting a type of an object to be displayed in the mounting drawing, and the processor causes the display device to display the mounting drawing for only the selected type of object. The mounting board remodeling support device according to claim 6 or 7, wherein: 9. Modification information including addition or deletion of a mounting component to a mounting board, addition or deletion of a wiring line, or cutting of a wiring is a set of differences or 1st difference from the first edition to the 1st edition for each edition number of the modification. A modification information storage means stored in advance in the form of only a difference from the version before, an input means for designating a first modified version number before the modification and a second modified version number after the modification, and a display device. The pair of addition and deletion of the same object is deleted from the differential remodeling information from the designated first remodeling version to the second remodeling version, and the differential remodeling information after erasing is displayed in the form of a mounting diagram. A mounting board remodeling support device, comprising: a processor for displaying the same on a device. 10. The remodeling information storage means stores the remodeling information in the form of a set of differences from the first version for each version or only a difference from the previous version for each version number of the remodeling, The input means is capable of designating a first modified version number before the modification and a second modified version number after the modification, and the processor determines the second modified version number from the designated first modified version number.
7. A pair of addition and deletion of the same object is deleted from the difference remodeling information up to the number of remodeling versions, and the difference remodeling information after deletion is displayed on the display device in the form of a mounting diagram. 10. The mounting board remodeling support device according to any one of claims 9 to 9.