Backplane Silkscreen Standard

Branding

All-caps Guardians (TBD) mil

RIT LAUNCH INITIATIVE on at least one edge, top side

<MODULE NAME> MODULE on at least one edge, top side

  • Never abbreviate "Module" to "Mod"
  • Printed at least as many times as RIT LAUNCH INITIATIVE

Launch logo (space permitting) 

No rocket-specific branding

Information

All-caps default Altium font, size as appropriate

Slightly modified Semantic Version (semver), bottom side

  • <MODULE> MODULE V<MAJOR>.<MINOR>.<PATCH> 
  • Releases are designs sent for fabrication, only increment version for fabbed designs
  • MAJOR incremented for all backwards-incompatible changes

    • Module doesn't work with previous backplane
    • Next backplane doesn't work with previous modules
    • Starts at 1
    • Reset Minor to 1 when incremented
  • MINOR incremented for backwards-compatible changes 
    • Adding functionality without changes to the backplane interface
    • Starts at 1
  • PATCH incremented for fixes
    • Starts at 0
  • We start at 1.1.0 (slight difference from semver, so we do not actually implement semver)

Flavor text

Default Altium font, sentence case, 100 mil, bottom side

  • Module designer(s), bottom side

    • No preface, just names
    • List multiple names vertically without bullets
  • Other flavor text about as much as a haiku
    • Content decided case-by-case