Kicad Autorouting Made Easy
One of the most laborious tasks in PCB layout is the routing. Autorouting isn’t always perfect, but it is nice to have the option, even if you only use it …read more Continue reading Kicad Autorouting Made Easy
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DeepPCB Routes Your KiCAD PCBs
Computers can write poetry, even if they can’t necessarily write good poetry. The same can be said of routing PC boards. Computers can do it, but can they do it well? Of course, there are multiple tools each with pluses and minuses. However, a slick web page recently announced deeppcb.ai …read more
High-Speed PCB Design Hack Chat with Bil Herd
Join us on Wednesday, September 25 at noon Pacific for the High-Speed PCB Design Hack Chat with Bil Herd!
Printed circuits have become so commoditized that we seldom think much about design details. EDA software makes it easy to forget about the subtleties and nuances that make themselves painfully obvious
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EasyEDA Hack Chat with Dillon He
Join us Wednesday at 5:00 PM Pacific time for the Easy EDA Hack Chat with Dillon He!
Note the different time than our usual Hack Chat slot! Dillon will be joining us from China.
Since the birth of electronic design automation in the 1980s, the universe of products to choose …read more
Free Routing for gEDA
If you lay out PC boards using software, it is a good bet you have an opinion about autorouters. Some people won’t use a package that can’t automatically route traces. Others won’t accept a machine layout when they can do their own by hand. You can, of course, combine the two, and many designers do.
The open source gEDA PCB package (and pcb-md) have an autorouter, but it is pretty simplistic. [VK5HSE] shows how you can use a few tools to interface with the Java Freerouting application, to get a better result. For example, the original router made square corners, …read more
