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Ultra Librarian and Digi-Key Team to Offer Symbols for 1.25 Million Components
March 21, 2018 | Digi-KeyEstimated reading time: 2 minutes
Digi-Key Electronics, a global electronic components distributor, announces it has reached a new milestone with Ultra Librarian; with the online library providing symbols, footprints, and 3D models for 1.25 million in-stock Digi-Key parts.
The addition of more associated parts allows customers to easily design with most of Digi-Key’s components in 22 CAD formats supporting most EDA and CAD toolsets.
“Digi-Key is a common source for many of our customers to purchase their parts,” said Manny Marcano, president and CEO of EMA Design Automation. “Our over eight-year partnership with Digi-Key to provide Ultra Librarian symbols, footprints, and 3D models gives our mutual customers direct access to library content that makes designing circuits faster, easier, and more precise.”
Creating and maintaining a library as large as Ultra Librarian requires a team of PCB and software experts to understand the needs of design engineers and to create software that support the needs of both the library creation team and the end users. “A big part of the job is creating the Ultra Librarian desktop software which is what we use to create the parts,” said Frank Frank, product architect for Ultra Librarian. “We develop tools in the software to increase the speed of capturing part information and to validate the parts by performing over 30 different checks to ensure accuracy, consistency, and adherence to IPC standards.”
“Digi-Key customers are always on the lookout for ways to reduce the design cycle, and with the larger library and sheer volume of parts available, they can get a jump-start on incorporating new parts into their designs for any application,” said Randall Restle, Vice President, Applications Engineering at Digi-Key. “Thanks to the great partnership we have with EMA, we are one step closer to meeting our goal of getting CAD models for all of the parts we offer so that our customers can focus on design and get their products to market faster.”
About Ultra Librarian
Ultra Librarian is a comprehensive electronic component solution for PCB design. www.UltraLibrarian.com allows visitors to search a database of over 40 million components to make part selection and sourcing decisions. Registered users can download pre-authored and verified components from the world’s largest database of over 14 million CAD neutral library parts. Symbols, footprints, and 3D models from over 400 manufacturers can be exported to over 20 different CAD tools. Library creation software includes templates for over 600 part types and allows easy customization and export to the same 20+ CAD tools. Ultra Librarian is owned by EMA Design Automation. Click here for more information.
About Digi-Key Electronics
Digi-Key Electronics, headquartered in Thief River Falls, Minn., USA, is an authorized global, full-service distributor of electronic components, offering more than 6.8 million products, with over 1.4 million in stock and available for immediate shipment, from over 750 quality name-brand manufacturers. Digi-Key also offers a wide variety of online resources such as EDA and design tools, datasheets, reference designs, instructional articles and videos, multimedia libraries, and much more. Technical support is available 24/7 via email, phone and webchat. Additional information and access to Digi-Key’s broad product offering can be found here.
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