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Library maintainer rules & guidelines

G1.6 Capitalization conventions

  1. Acronyms should be capitalized

    • MCU (microcontroller)

    • FPGA (field programmable gate array)

  2. Manufacturer names should be capitalized according to the manufacturer

    • Microchip

    • ROHM

    • Texas

    • NEC

  3. Unless separated by delimiters such as _, -, ., words should be separated using CamelCase convention, with the first letter of each word capitalised

    • TestPoint

    • BatteryHolder