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To understand the problems users and vendors encountered with EDIF 2 0 0, one first has to picture all the elements and dynamics of the electronics industry.

The people who needed this standard were mainly design engineers, who worked for companies whose size ranged from a house garage to multi-billion dollar facilities with thousands of engineers.

These engineers worked mainly from schematics and netlists in the late 1980s, and the big push was to generate the netlists from the schematics automatically.

The first suppliers were Electronic Design Automation vendors ( e. g., Daisy, Mentor, and Valid formed the earliest predominating set ).

These companies competed vigorously for their shares of this market.