Personal CAD/CAM for graphic projection and manufacture of microprocessor PCB masks, input information-carrying medium and numeric controlled lathes has been designed. CAD/CAM instrument-software could be interfaced to an APRICOT type PC and to the USSR-manufactured equipment. Personal CAD/CAM is considered as a person-machine system and works in the automatic and semi-automatic modes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe structure of the system for designing printed circuit boards based on such widely used technical equipment as minicomputers and unified-system computers, is discussed. The system allows one to carry out, in consecutive stages, the automation of the process of designing printed circuit boards and the technological provision for their manufacture. The principles of designing the boards on the basis of algorithms using the notion of channels and including the subdivision of the total circuit into separate structural units, the location of different elements in these units and their tracing are described in detail.
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