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Implementation of placement and routing algorithms for computer aided design of printed circuit boards

Patnaik, LM and Gadkari, BA and Ramakrishnan, L (1984) Implementation of placement and routing algorithms for computer aided design of printed circuit boards. In: Computers & Graphics, 7 (3-4). pp. 333-347.

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Abstract

The Printed Circuit Board (PCB) layout design is one of the most important and time consuming phases during equipment design process in all electronic industries. This paper is concerned with the development and implementation of a computer aided PCB design package. A set of programs which operate on a description of the circuit supplied by the user in the form of a data file and subsequently design the layout of a double-sided PCB has been developed. The algorithms used for the design of the PCB optimise the board area and the length of copper tracks used for the interconnections. The output of the package is the layout drawing of the PCB, drawn on a CALCOMP hard copy plotter and a Tektronix 4012 storage graphics display terminal. The routing density (the board area required for one component) achieved by this package is typically 0.8 sq. inch per IC. The package is implemented on a DEC 1090 system in Pascal and FORTRAN and SIGN(1) graphics package is used for display generation.

Item Type: Journal Article
Publication: Computers & Graphics
Publisher: Elsevier science
Additional Information: Copyright for this article belongs to Elsevier science.
Department/Centre: Division of Electrical Sciences > Computer Science & Automation
Date Deposited: 29 Jan 2010 06:08
Last Modified: 02 Dec 2010 09:18
URI: http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/23779

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