Automatic Printed Circuit Board Design,
Abstract
The report describes a new apporach to the automatic design of printed circuit boards. In the past, the problem has been partitioned by design functions. The generally recognized functions are pin assignment, component placement, and wire routing or layout. This is essentially a serial partition of the problem. Instead of producing the layout wire by wire, as is currently the rule, the layout is produced by traversing the board in a raster scan fashion, routing all relevant wires in parallel. This allows all design functions to be accomplished simultaneously. The fact that the layout functions are done concurrently provides for greater feedback between the different functions, and therefore greater efficiency, as more relevant information is available to each function. (Modified author abstract)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 01, 1972
- Accession Number
- AD0762021
Entities
People
- Donald Oestreicher
Organizations
- University of Utah