OrCad xml lib helpers: kicad2orcad-xml and xilinxpkg2orcad-xml
July 26, 2026 —
Nazim
Recently, I had to convert a large FPGA schematic symbol from KiCad into the OrCad XML library format. So, I delegated this task to my dear pal Claude, who accomplished it extremely well.
Unfortunately, the pin map in that KiCad symbol was not distributed by bank, so my dear pal Claude made a second script that creates an XML lib directly from the Xilinx package CSV file, and it looks amazing. So glad that I don’t have to check the 1000+ pin package manually. AI is the greatest thing to delegate the routine coding to.
The repo for both of the scripts: https://github.com/electrodyssey/kicad2orcad_xml