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