Hi, Im' new here. My name is Pierre. I've started to develop for kicad a tool for trace length tunning.
Trace length tunning is an important tool which is lacking when designing more complex boards in particular board with DDR/DDR2/DDR3 ram. For example the board olinuxino imx 233 maxi, which is open hardware uses length tunned traces in Eagle. It is currently completely impossible to do similar thing with kicad even when spending lot of time on it. A bug was filled by other users: https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/594089 So my initial development was to stop the bleeding, and obviously it is very early version which can largely be improved in usability. Though for my use it is already suitable for DDR ram routing. Here are first results: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWJyGpkZ6k4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdQ-2EnWNkw I would appreciate any feedback, and advice. Do you think I should do a branch with my code (still buggy)? Also I think it would be nice to get it working with new component view, I don't think it would be hard. Has the microwave toolbox started to be ported? (it would give me an example). I think it would be good to make sure a length tunning tool (even minimal) is available in next kicad release, because it simply prevents to use kicad to design certain kind of boards. Pierre. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
