System for recreating a printed circuit board from disjointly formatted data
US5781447A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Oct 7, 1996 |
| Grant date | Jul 14, 1998 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 7, 2016 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH05K13/0882
- WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A system and method of recreating a Printed Circuit Board (PCB) in electronic form from disjointly formatted data. A graphical representation of the PCB is displayed as derived from electronically formatted Gerber files wherein component mounting locations are electronically selected and component identification data is merged from a non-electronically formatted bill of materials into a database for associating the component identification data with the Gerber files PCB data. This system overcomes the previously tedious, manual and error-prone process of recreating a PCB from such disjointly formatted data.
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