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> > Now, there's no way we're going to wean the chip vendors off PDFs. What we > > need to do instead is provide them with tools (like they're using now) > > which can generate PDFs AND which can generate machine-readable specs. That > > means two things: > > o Somebody has to define the specifications. Pin numbers, voltage > > ranges, current consumption, frequency responses, etc. > > o Once those specifications have been defined, the software has to be > > written which can take that input data, and write out a PDF that looks > > mostly like what they're sending out now, and generate the machine-readable > > spec file. > > > > ​I know this is an old thread, but I had a thought. One such tool which > could produce the PDFs could be LaTeX. If a standardized template for a > LaTeX data sheet for chips where defined perhaps even using a package of > TeX macros, the TeX source itself would become a machine parsable chip > datasheet format. As a bonus TeX produces HTML and perhaps other formats > besides PDFs as well has having a very mature community surrounding it. > ~Joshua I would say LaTeX is very good for generation of PDFs only question is from what? Ibis files provide quite a lot of detailed electrical information about the chip. Some chips also have BSDL files. CANopen use *.eds Electronic Data Sheet files and Profibus use *.gsd file but this kind of "automatic" configuration from eletronic datasheets is sensitive to errors. Nicklas Karlsson
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