Murphy’s Law of PCB CAD

I’m putting together some logic chips to make a couple of precision timing tools as part of a clock calibration project. The FIRST old TI chip I go to add to a new schematic in Eagle has no library support. If I had a nickle for every time this has happened… So I search for it and here’s the one hit at Element14:

“Hey, I’m a new user here, and pretty new to using Eagle Cad. I am looking for a dual 16 bit counter, and the chip that I’ve been using in my lab, and am using Eagle Cad to make a schematic.

Is there any library that includes the chip? Or is there any good alternative inside the existing Eagle Cad libraries?

74LV8154 is the chip I’m using, datasheet: http://www.ti.com/product/sn74lv8154-ep

Thanks! <name omitted>

This is followed by one reply:

Hi,

if you are new to EAGLE, it’s a good point to start your training by

creating your own library. You will have to learn it anyway in the long run.

 Best Regards, <omitted>

Folks, here is my reply to this: There will soon be an Eagle library item for this chip. I’ll gladly mail it to you after you deposit $100 in my Paypal account. Consider this extra special motivation for you to fully enjoy the learning experience of making your own component file as a cheaper option that will enrich your life and improve your character.

Sheesh. But seriously, it might eventually be worthwhile to create TriEmbed libraries. I have a handful of custom component descriptions that I trust and would be comfortable sharing. The additional value of this is that we might get feedback about how to improve them.

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  1. We created SnapEDA to solve this very problem and help people find CAD parts quickly.

    Not sure if you still need the 74LV8154 Eagle CAD part but if you do, it’s free to download here:

    http://www.snapeda.com/parts/SN74LV8154PWR/Texas{13079d06258ef9010cea88dee32f3cdfc6f216a54651010f7303ce6140ee927c}20Instruments/view_part/

    This is a different orderable part but uses the same package (TSSOP-20).

    You can also upload your Eagle .lbr files too if you want to share! 🙂

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