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[Philip Pemberton <ygroups@...>]

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Dick H. wrote:
> Please forward to one of these Kicad lists, any documentation links 
> to this "Spectra DSN format" for future reference. So that even after
> this is implemented, somebody can support any code written for it.

Behold, the full Cadence SPECCTRA Design Language Reference:
http://www.autotraxeda.com/docs/SPECCTRA/SPECCTRA.pdf

The documentation itself makes the format look like a bit of a swine, but the 
example files look fairly simple. I haven't seen what KiCAD's files look like, 
though...

Best guess, this is going to involve:
- Converting the component layout and netlist data
- Reading and converting the PCB footprint data
- Converting the padstack data

So probably not a small job by any stretch of the imagination...

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