What is a .IPC file?
An .ipc file is an IPC-D-356A bare-board fabrication and electrical-test netlist - a list of every test point on a PCB, the net it belongs to, the component pin or via and its position. Exported by PCB tools such as KiCad and Altium for the fab house.
- Did you know
- The fab house loads an IPC-356 netlist into a flying-probe or bed-of-nails tester to check the bare board for shorts and opens before any parts are fitted.
- IPC is the global trade association for printed-circuit boards, and its IPC-D-356 netlist lets any CAD tool describe a board's nets to any fab house.
- Because the netlist names which pads belong to the same electrical net, a tester can confirm the finished copper matches the original design.
- What Analyser shows you
- Open IPC-D-356A bare-board fabrication and electrical-test netlists (.ipc) exported by KiCad, Altium and other PCB tools. Analyser parses the fixed-column feature records - the net each test point belongs to, the component reference and pin, the pad or via geometry and its X/Y position - and rebuilds the full net-to-pin connectivity, summarises the nets, components and pad/via mix, and draws a fabrication map of every test point coloured by net.
- Open a .IPC file
- Drag a .IPC file onto the Analyser home page (or tap to pick one). It opens entirely in your browser - nothing is uploaded, there is no account, and it works offline once installed.
- Related formats
- Browse the full list of supported file types.