On Sat, Apr 06, 2013 at 09:21:16PM +0200, Javier Serrano wrote: > This has been already discussed over some length with Jean-Pierre, Wayne > and Dick. I really hope the donations people get their act together this > week and we can go public. In the meantime, if you have any comments I > will also be very interested in reading them. Looking forward to working > with you.
I'd already seen that list before... anyway some things are already in motion (I'm doing the layer limit removal thing, for example). The push&shove and the differential pair routing are big feature requested many and many times... they are *just* too complex to think about (for me at least :P:P). Differential pair is more easy than the push&shove router (its not recursive, at least) but I've not enough user-experience on the process to implement something really useful... in fact I usually move around more amperes than megahertz:D I've only done the occasional transmission line (USB stuff) and an evaluation for a DSP board and I agree that at the moment pcbnew is not exactly the best tool for the job (it can be done, anyway... there are better tool but the price can't be beaten yet) Another thing I feel that could be useful is the split plane support (as a mixed signal designer); the 'best' way at the moment is to use zone fills and keep track of the zone boundary by hand. As before its a little inconvenient but it works. Also it needs careful inspection before production: there are 'soft' keepout zones to keep an eye to (like crossing a split on another layer). And more than one time I wished some kind of '3d clearance' between netclasses: a thermocouple amplifier on the top and a chopper power return on back are a sure recipe for noise (true story: I had to remake the board...) Then there would be the tool convincing mechanical designers and management to give you a little more space for the board, so that the above defect could be avoided in the first place: they usually go like "it should be big as a cellphone but completely repairable and without anything smaller than 0603 for reliability; here is the enclosure, it has to fit there since we already made the mould". And obviously industrial strength at consumer prices... It happens that such a tool exists, but could be better integrated in kicad: look on the net for clue-by-four :D best held with one hand screaming wildy; head of the previous designer in the other hand optional :D:D) -- Lorenzo Marcantonio Logos Srl _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
