ANN: liblpfk (IBM LPFK driver library), tumble-0.33-philpem1

[Steven Hirsch]

On Tue, 27 Jul 2010, Philip Pemberton wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> A few of you might remember the IBM LPFK bulk-order a couple of years back, 
> and the ensuing chaos of figuring out the control protocol (which was 
> eventually resolved when Michael Brutman found some old IBM protocol docs 
> which covered the LPFK).

Some of the long-time VLSI design folks I work with still prefer these for 
layout entry.  I've heard them referred to as "bump buttons", probably 
because of the way they're mapped into some of our internal layout tools.



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