On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 09:28:57PM +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > > I am no electric engineer, but i had a collegue who designed three arm > > based boards with gEDA, > > it is feasible. > > ... if you know what you are doing. i don't :) if you know exactly > how to lay out differential pairs by hand such that they will cope > with 3ghz signals, that's fine: you can do that by hand with gEDA or > any other software. if you know exactly how to then create the > ground-plane protection around those 3ghz differential pairs, that's > absolutely fine, too. > > the list of things that you need to know just goes on and on, and as > this is the very first project i've done, and am throwing myself > head-first in at the deep end, and on tight time-schedules as well, i > have to rely on software which has the majority of what most > electrical engineers with 20 years experience [*1] know encoded > instead into automated software. > > so yes, it *can* be done... but not by numptys like me :)
Alternatively, you can use a cpu module of some kind, and just do the easy things :) Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
