Through our years of experience, we highly recommend asking your board-shop if they have the ability to compare your Gerber data with an IPC Netlist. This comparison ensures that the Gerber data matches the Netlist in your CAD software, avoiding any surprises that may have been caused through export issues or import issues from the fabrication shops CAM software. In the end, this provides an excellent reliability check so that corrections can be made and precious time is not wasted in extra design revisions.
Electronic Interconnect offers full IPC-365-A Netlist comparison support. For more information on PCB design visit our website.
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