Library Analysis
Configuration management relating to components is becoming more of an issue, as people face the challenges and solutions arising from a repository of reusable library components. There is an implication that reusable components are the "best practice", but these don’t necessarily suit every library employment.
Never the less if the quality of your component database is high, the gain from reusing components is significant. While multiple library teams are using a largely common library management infrastructure, sharing components between teams can avoid “reinventing the wheel” and improve overall efficiency. To ensure maximum efficiency, Zuken’s EDA library solution provides in depth analysis to maintain the best possible quality of library information before reusing libraries or its individual objects.
This analysis method is mainly based on the relationships being built within the database such as ‘many to many relationship’, i.e. projects consist of many components and a component may be used in many projects. It is also very important to have capabilities that enable independent release cycles, and version and branching history for each component available for use within this analysis.