The goal of this program is to generate a file that is similar to the PKL file produced by PCAD-DOS.

Several options are available giving the designer control over the output file to be generated. One option allows the designer to choose between PCB or SCH for the extraction of the PKL files. Another enables the designer to selectively exclude certain reference designators from the output file.

While it is the intent of this program to reproduce the results of the PCAD-DOS version, in some areas there are going to be differences due to the greater power of ACCEL EDA.

DBX2PKL is a 32-bit program that runs in a Windows 95/98/XP environment, and works with P-CAD 2002.

DBX2PKL uses the ACCEL DataBase eXchange (DBX) Interface to communicate with the application, and therefore requires ACCEL SCH to be running, as well as the ACCEL DBX Development files to be installed from the ACCEL EDA CD.

The example file shown below, is the result of running DBX2PKL.

%*********************************************************************
%                                                                    *
%      Program   :   DBX2PKL VERSION 1.1                             *
%      Date      :   06-03-1998                                      *
%      Time      :   22:04:24                                        *
%      File In   :   221336.sch                                      *
%      File Out  :   221336.PKL                                      *
%      Format    :   PACKAGING LIST                                  *
%                                                                    *
%*********************************************************************


C1      ( 1       =GND,          2        =NET00004 )
        [ Value                  =0.22uF ]
C11     ( 1       =NET00030,     2        =GND )
        [ Value                  =0.22uF ]
C12     ( 1       =NET00030,     2        =GND )
        [ Value                  =0.22uF ]
C13     ( 1       =NET00030,     2        =GND )
        [ Value                  =1000pF ]
C2      ( 1       =GND,          2        =NET00009 )
        [ Value                  =0.22uF ]
C3      ( 1       =GND,          2        =NET00014 )
        [ Value                  =0.22uF ]
C4      ( 1       =GND,          2        =NET00023 )
        [ Value                  =0.22uF ]
C5      ( 1       =GND,          2        =NET00024 )
        [ Value                  =0.22uF ]
D1      ( 1       =NET00001,     2        =NET00029 )
        [  ]
D2      ( 1       =NET00006,     2        =NET00029 )
        [  ]
D3      ( 1       =NET00011,     2        =NET00029 )
        [  ]
D4      ( 1       =NET00016,     2        =NET00029 )
        [  ]
D5      ( 1       =GND,          2        =NET00029 )
        [  ]

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