This paper reviews the present status and current developments of the Electronic Design Interchange Format, EDIF. After a review of the role EDIF has at present, some of the new ideas being developed for inclusion in the new release of EDIF (Version 2 1 0 ) are introduced.

We present a class of fixtures that can be disassembled into four pieces to extract the loosely-tied knot. We prove that a fixture can be designed for any particular knot such that the knot can be extracted using only simple pure translations of the four fixture sections. We explore some of the issues raised by our experimental work with these fixtures, which show that simple knots can be tied ...

For microwave designs and when designing for electromagnetic compatibility (EMC), we need competent models of passive surface mount devices (SMDs), that is: resistors, capacitors and inductors. Such models are not always available or trustworthy, so we sometimes need to measure the impedance of these components ourselves. Appropriate measurement equipment exists, but often exceeds the available...