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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