Electronic Design Automation (EDA) is a critical industry which enables the development of electronic systems. Traditionally, EDA has been bifurcated into two distinctive market segments: Semiconductor and Systems (PCB). If one were to look at the EDA industry in the early 1970’s, one would find significant capabilities… Read More
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IPC-2581: The Standard for PCB Data Exchange
The motivations to establish an industry standard data format are varied:
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- solidify a “de facto” standard, transitioning its evolution and support from a single company to an industry consortium;
- aggregate disparate sources of design and manufacturing data into a single representation, with documented semantics;