Editing EDIF (section)

== Revision history ==

EDIF Version 1 0 0 in 1985

EDIF Version 1 1 0 in 1986

=== EDIF 2 0 0 ===
The first "real" public release of EDIF was version 2 0 0, which was approved in March 1988 as the standard ANSI/EIA-548-1988. It is published in a single volume. This version has no formal [[scope statement]] but what it tries to capture is covered by the defined '''viewType'''s:
* ''BEHAVIOR to describe the behavior of a cell''
* ''DOCUMENT to describe the documentation of a cell''
* ''GRAPHIC to describe a ''dumb'' graphics and text representation of displayable or printable information''
* ''LOGICMODEL to describe the logic-simulation model of the cell''
* ''MASKLAYOUT to describe an integrated circuit layout''
* ''NETLIST to describe a netlist''
* ''PCBLAYOUT to describe a printed circuit board''
* ''SCHEMATIC to describe the schematic representation and connectivity of a cell''
* ''STRANGER to describe an as yet unknown representation of a cell''
* ''SYMBOLIC to describe a symbolic layout''
The industry tested this release for several years, but finally only the NETLIST view was the one widely used and some EDA tools are still supporting it today for EDIF 2 0 0.

To overcome problems with the main 2 0 0 standard several further documents got released:
* Electronic Industries Association
** ''EDIF Monograph Series, Volume 1, Introduction to EDIF'', EIA/EDIF-1, Sept. 1988
** ''EDIF Monograph Series, Volume 2, EDIF Connectivity'', EIA/EDIF-2, June 1989
** ''Using EDIF 2 0 0 for schematic transfer'', EIA/EDIF/AG-1, July 1989
* Documentation from Hilary J. Kahn, Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester
** ''EDIF 2 0 0, An Introductory Tutorial'', September 1989
** ''EDIF Questions and answers, volume one'', November 1988
** ''EDIF Questions and answers, volume two'', February 1989
** ''EDIF Questions and answers, volume three'', July 1989
** ''EDIF Questions and answers, volume four'', November 1989
** ''EDIF Questions and answers, volume five'', June 1991

=== EDIF 2 9 0 ===
Released on 15 September 1992.

=== EDIF 3 0 0 ===
Because of some fundamental weaknesses in the 2 0 0 release a new not compatible release 3 0 0 was released in September 1993,  given the designation of [[Electronic Industries Alliance|EIA]] standard EIA-618. It later achieved [[American National Standards Institute|ANSI]] and [[International Organization for Standardization|ISO]] designations. It is published in 4 volumes. The main focus of this version were the viewTypes NETLIST and SCHEMATIC from 2 0 0. MASKLAYOUT, PCBLAYOUT and some other views were dropped from this release and shifted for later releases because the work for these views was not fully completed.

EDIF 3 0 0 is available from the [[International Electrotechnical Commission]] as IEC 61690-1

=== EDIF 4 0 0 ===
EDIF 4 0 0 was released in late August 1996, mainly to add "Printed Circuit Board" extensions (the original PCBLAYOUT view) to EDIF 3 0 0. This more than doubled the size of EDIF 3 0 0, and is published in HTML format on CD.

EDIF 4 0 0 is available from the International Electrotechnical Commission as [[IEC 61690-2]]