User's Manual for PCBOARD.

Abstract

PCBOARD is Super Tool-a digital computer program used to design the layouts of printed circuit boards. Not a substitute for printed circuit layout experience, it rather provides the designer with the use of an interactive graphics terminal functioning as an electronic drafting board. Layouts can be generated on the face of the graphics screen thru the optimum placement of components and construction of the conductor paths interconnecting their common leads. A computer driven plotter produces inked drawing copies of the completed screen layout or when equipped with an optical exposure head this same plotter can produce an actual size artwork master of the conductor pattern directly on photographic film for use in the manufacture of the board.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1975
Accession Number
ADA010313

Entities

People

  • Ralph E. Lombardi

Organizations

  • Picatinny Arsenal

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Circuit Boards
  • Circuits
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Digital Computers
  • Drafting
  • Graphics
  • Interactive Graphics
  • Photographic Film
  • Printed Circuit Boards
  • Printed Circuits

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Data Science/Digital Signal Processing.
  • Integrated Circuit Design and Technology.
  • Software Engineering

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics
  • Microelectronics - Microelectromechanical Systems