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This appendix is intended to introduce and summarize the types and formats of technical documentation that are typically encountered in electronic system designs. This encompasses rules, geometric dimensioning and tolerancing in technical drawings (Sects. 8.1., 8.2) and preferred numbers (Renard and E-Series, Sect. 8.3). We also outline schematic symbols for electronic components (Sect. 8.4) and describe their labeling with colors and characters (Sect. 8.5).
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The USA and Canada do not use the ISO paper sizes; instead they use the Letter, Legal and Executive sizes. Although they have also officially adopted the ISO 216 paper format, Mexico, Panama, Venezuela, Colombia, the Philippines, and Chile also primarily use U.S. paper sizes.
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The geometric rationale behind the square root of 2 is to maintain the aspect ratio of each subsequent rectangle after cutting or folding an A series sheet in half, perpendicular to the larger side.
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The French army engineer Charles Renard proposed in the 1870s a set of preferred numbers in order to significantly reduce the number of different sizes of balloon ropes the French army kept on inventory. He divided the interval from 1 to 10 into 5, 10, 20, or 40 steps, based on a constant factor between two consecutive numbers (the 5th, 10th, 20th, or 40th root of 10).
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IEEE Standard 91-1984, IEEE Standard Graphic Symbols for Logic Functions, and IEEE Standard 91a-1991, Supplement to IEEE Standard 91-1984.
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IEC 60617 Graphical symbols for diagrams.
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Lienig, J., Bruemmer, H. (2017). Appendix. In: Fundamentals of Electronic Systems Design. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55840-0_8
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