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From: jjh@LL-VLSI.ARPA (James J. Hunt)
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Subject: Re: Posting schematics...
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Date: 10 Mar 88 06:16:12 GMT
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> I am aware of the emerging IEEE Electronic Design Interchange Format
> (EDIF), although I know nothing about it. Does any reader know if EDIF
> relevantly addresses the issue of schematic communication?

EDIF is a reasonable means of communicating schematics.  EIA has published a
document describing EDIF --- EIA Interim Standard No. 44.  To the best of my
knowledge, EDIF 2 0 0 has be adopted by EIA  as a  full standard, but I only
know the  Interim number.  Several  CAD vendors claim they support  EDIF for
schematics.  I don't know how well any particular vendor  lives  up to their
claim.  Also the new  Berkeley Oct tools  will be supporting EDIF (Some time
this spring?).  Berkeley may also be distributing an EDIF parser (written in
C) with future releases  of the Oct  tools.  It is  best to contact Berkeley
directly for the ``OFFICAL STORY''.  The advantages of  EDIF are  that it is
an ascii format and there is a standard for it.

				--- JJHunt