Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Kazushi Ikeda

Motochika Okano

Kazuyuki Matsuda

An information processing apparatus includes: an input unit; a storing unit configured to store wiring layout information and layer configuration information of a multilayer printed circuit board; a layout displaying unit configured to display a wiring layout drawing based on the wiring layout information; a clipping position specifying unit configured to specify a clipping position on the displayed wiring layout drawing in response to user's operation of the input unit; and a cross section displaying unit configured to display a cross section indicating a cross-sectional structure of the wiring layout of the multilayer printed circuit board along the specified clipping position on the display based on the wiring layout information and the layer configuration information.

Information processing apparatus and information display method

An information display method includes converting circuit diagram CAD data of a circuit board into a first standard format and converting layout diagram CAD data of the circuit board into a second standard format, displaying a circuit diagram based on the circuit diagram CAD data converted into the first standard format on a screen of a circuit-diagram viewer and displaying a layout diagram based on the layout diagram CAD data converted into the second standard format on a screen of a layout-diagram viewer, highlighting a circuit element selected on the screen of either the circuit-diagram viewer or the layout-diagram viewer using specified color, and giving information for identifying the circuit element selected on the screen to another viewer, and highlighting an element corresponding to the circuit element identified by the given information on the screen of the viewer receiving the information using specified color.

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Hino, Japan

Kazushi Ikeda