LibMan - an easy way to manage your open source design flow
- Develop a Library Manager to unite Open Source EDA tools into a flow.
- Provide similar Library Manager functionality to the ones provided by to commercial companies.
- Design User Interface in a way the users got used to.
- Make it easily customizable and extendable based on user requests/preferences.
LibMan helps to organize libraries and cell views in a design project:
- Create new libraries in your directories.
- Copy data into libraries.
- Delete libraries.
- Rename libraries, cells, views.
- Edit libraries, cells, and views.
- Organize cells into categories.
- Unite libraries into groups.
- Display libraries, cells, views information.
- Navigate through libraries, cells, views.
- Project file is used to specify and store the location of the reference and design libraries
- LibMan displays the libraries, categories, cells, and views specified in project file
- Project file can be loaded by -- Explicitly specifying it as command line argument -- Running LibMan from a folder where project file is saved -- Loading from the recent file menu
Example of project file:
GROUP Text test1 test2
PROJECT test1 ~/test1
PROJECT test2 ~/test2
Where
- GROUP is used to unite libraries (if desiered).
- PROJECT specifies name of the library and its location.
- GCC version of 4.8.5 (or later)
- Qt version of 4.8.6 upwards
- QtCreator version of 4.0.3 (or later)
- Doxygen version of 1.8.5 (or later)
qmake libman.pro
make- Open QtCreator and go to "Tools > Options > Kits"
- Go to "Qt Versions" add press "Add" - select the qmake executable generated by the configure script. Then hit "Apply".
- Go to "Kits" and press "Add" - Make shure to select the correct compilers and debugger and select the previously create "Qt Version". Press "Ok".
- Open the top level libman.pro file in QtCreator and choose the previously created Kit. QtCreator will now use the correct qmake executable.
- Run building button to compile the project.
- Provide arguments support to exectute view editors (Q4 2023)
- Git support for design data in LibMan (2024)
Doxygen was used to parse the source code and generate documentation.
