[Cryptech Tech] design software

[Bernd Paysan]

Am Montag, 18. Januar 2016, 00:26:24 schrieb Pavel Shatov:
> All design tools allow you to generate Gerbers from their internal 
> formats. So regardless of whether you use free open source design 
> software or proprietary closed source design software, you will export 
> Gerbers in the end, and they are easy to audit.

Any proper audit (at least any audit I would do) would include an LVS check to 
verify that the gerber data indeed matches the schematics.  Gerber is only the 
layout.  Both schematic and layout need to be available for a free tool that 
can do things like LVS.

Of course everyone who wants to create a derived version also would like to 
have access to the actual editable data (Gerber isn't).

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