-
Notifications
You must be signed in to change notification settings - Fork 5
Home
FriedParts is an online Component Information System (CIS) and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) tool. FriedParts integrates directly with Altium Designer (a PCB CADD tool), Digikey (a distributor), Octopart (an engineering search engine), Google (an ID provider), and Dropbox (a network file system). It is free to use and modify under a modified BSD license. You can find the licensing terms here.
- The 2011 IPC APEX conference paper on the FriedParts architecture
- The UCLA NES Laboratory project page for FriedParts
Quite simply, FriedParts handles all of your component and BOM management. You find parts on the FriedParts website, then add them to your schematic design (and PCB too, but that is automatic!) in Altium Designer (it will connect directly to the FriedParts database via TCP port 1433). Finish your design and then generate a Bill Of Materials (BOM) in XML format from within Altium (we provide instructions on the website) which you then import into the FriedParts website to generate all of your fab documentation.
All of the Altium component libraries and binaries mentioned on the website are distributed to you via Dropbox and automatically kept up to date. That way if someone adds a new part to FriedParts you can instantly see, use, and incorporate it into your PCB design without having to do any work! Further, you know you can trust the data because you can see which projects/PCB's it has actually been used in successfully! Wow!
You can download the code from github and setup your own server, or you can use our online "live" site. The "live" site uses a nightly build of the master repository of the kg4lod branch.
We would love your developmental support! That's why we moved to github. If you are remotely located, just fork this github repository and send a pull request when ready for us to evaluate and commit your changes. There is still a lot of important features missing that I just don't have the time to build out, but with community support we could make this an amazing tool.