This is the first instalment of an FPGA course based on the versatile FPGA unit and associated prototyping board described in the last issue. This series of articles describes how to design digital circuits and program an FPGA. In this article, which is the first instalment of the series, we discuss the basic components of digital electronics. In […]
FABmaster Circuit Schematic Viewer & Relational Database Processing
FABmaster Circuit Schematic Viewer The FABmaster Circuit Schematic Viewer (FABSCHEMA) is a software application that runs on FABmaster. It allows the user to visualise electrical circuits / schematics (for the moment only those in HPGL format). Before only the printed circuit board could be displayed using FABmaster not the electrical components which means that greater accuracy […]
FABmaster Graphical Insertion / Placement Path Designer Option
The FABmaster Graphical Insertion / Placement Path Designer option (throughout this document called the Path Designer) is used to design the insertion / placement path (the Path) for insertion, pick & place and semi-automatic assembly machines. A number of FABmaster® machine output processors require this option. To check if it is required for a particular machine, see the […]
FABmaster FABMLL-PASTE
The FABmaster Machine Library Linker software FABMLL-PASTE is a kernel option for use with FABmaster Classic. FABMLL-PASTE is used to generate attributes for solder paste deposits or solder points that are used by the FABmaster CAMALOT output processor. These attributes are stored in the FABmaster System Outline Library and so are available for use with any Job. […]
FABmaster User-Programmable Configurations
FABmaster® Standard Stations and FABmaster® Standard Stations with options can include: Job set-up editors (masks): LABELSET, PANEL, PLOTSET, NAILSET. Job configuration files: CHUCKSET, LABELSET, PANELSET, PLOTSET, NAILSET. These files take the suffix .ASC. Input processor configuration files which usually take the suffix .INI. Output processor configuration files which in most cases take the suffix .CNF. FABmaster® software option editors […]
FABmaster Interface
FABmaster Graphics When FABmaster starts up, the User Screen is displayed first. At different stages of processing the user will work in all five FABmaster screens: FABmasterUser Screen See § 2 for the features and information about the icons. FABmasterJob Screen See § 3 for the features and information about the icons. Note that there is […]
FABmaster Macro Command Interpreter
Introduction The FABmaster software FABmaster Macro Command Interpreter FABMACRO memorises a sequence of commands in a file that can then be activated when required. The macro command interpreter is useful for programming machines or if using FABmaster as an interactive Repair Station. A sequence of steps can be memorised as a macro to program machines. FABmaster will […]
FABmaster Option
FABmaster® ASCII Toolkit Option FABmaster® Automatic Shop Floor Documentation Option FABmaster® Automatic Shop Floor Documentation Option (FABAutoDoc) is a FABmaster® innovation which has been developed to be fully compatible with Windows. FABAutoDoc is an integrated module within the FABmaster® software which allows the user to: Generate Board Graphics colored drawings on a FABmaster® Documentation Layer in a Data Screen. A document can contain up […]
FABmaster Bed of Nails Tester Fixture Design Option
The documentation for the FABmaster Tester Fixture Design software has been split into three separate documents each dealing with a specific aspect of the software: FABmaster Gold for Testdescribes / explains the GOLD interface: the Test Panel in the Fixture Design step of the flowchart including the Search engine, Viewers and the Navigator. FABmaster Gold for Test […]
FABmaster GOLD + Libraries
FABmaster GOLD has an advanced process oriented user interface with flowchart navigation. A flowchart should include all the steps which must be carried out to run a process from A to Z. This document explains the different steps in the flowchart that involve working with the Libraries and the Attributes. The documentation for the FABmaster Part […]