Gert-Jan van den Braak wrote: > Hello all, > > My name is Gert-Jan van den Braak and I am an electrical engineering > student at the Eindhoven University of Technology in The Netherlands. > A few weeks ago I finished two courses about routing on chips, which > is closely related to routing PCBs. I found these courses very > interesting and that is why I would like to participate in the GsoC > with a project about an autorouter for gEDA/PCB. . . . . This autorouter should be able to take care of > the entire routing process, from placing all components on the PCB to > routing them as good as possible. Of course it must also be possible > for the user to first place a few key components, like connectors on > the edge of the board or mounting holes, and than let the autorouter > take care of the rest. Or the user can select to route only one or a > couple of rats. The autorouter should also have many options for the > user to choose from, for example the user must be allowed to choose > between 45 degree angles or 'any' degree angles. And users must be > able to specify which components can be moved by the autorouter and > which not.
Sounds fabulous! I can't help with coding the algorithms much, but maybe at the conceptual level since I've done a lot of layout of chip designs, and some boards, so I have an autorouter in my head now... :-) John gRiessen PS There are some others here who will welcome your suggestion and are bound to say something soon. -- Ecosensory Austin TX _______________________________________________ geda-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-dev
