Bert, A high end (Diamond Quality) fab and assembly shop uses the "ascii" file to program their flying probe tester. There is an existing standard which I have an example off at the office which is based upon the pads file format. If you are interested I can probably get you an example early next week.
Steve Meier L.J.H. Timmerman wrote: > Hi Steve and all, > > So if I understand this correctly, you are asking for someone to write > an exporter for pcb which outputs a file with XY-values of pads(pins) > with an ID-reference to be able to check for copper conductivity etc. > and maybe even frequency related impedance/capacitance (nelma ?). > > Something like (a csv file): > <example> > #Id X Y top/bottom > C1-1,100.50,50.20,top > C1-2,100.50,50.25,top > </example> > > or > > <example> > #refdes pad X Y top/bottom > C1,1,100.50,50.20,top > C1,2,100.50,50.25,top > </example> > > Or does a defacto standard format already exist ? > > Together with a netlist of connecting traces this would give enough > information for testing conductity in an automated fashion. > > I think the BOM/XY exporter would be a good candidate to be extended for > this functionality, as it already calculates all the XY values of > pins/pads in some fashion. > > Hmm, I should probably X-post this one to geda-dev. > > Just my EUR 0.02 > > Kind regards, > > bert Timmerman. > > On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 21:54 -0700, Steve Meier wrote: > >> [snip] >> This is an issue that we need to address as board shops that have the >> ability to do point to point probing are asking for files that define >> the locations of each pad. >> >> Steve M. >> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > geda-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user > > _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
