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While it took a little time to get a usable design and even more time to get a decent design, either way saved me many hours compared to manual routing and probably I ended up with a better result.
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Conclusion: Considering it is free (either with Diptrace you buy or the free version) and so fast and easy, there is value here. Not bad, and if I had not already seen the TopoR results I would have been very happy with this route and the amount of time it took to get there. The computer should have done all this for me in an automatic last pass that might have taken a couple milliseconds. I think took another 45 minutes or so to do some optional clean up, like pulling in the corners of wide turns to shorten the traces, and straightening the kinks out of twisted segments around the angled LEDs. It only took about 5 minutes to manually complete the board and I had a working layout with no design rule violations. Why would it leave these easy ones for me? Just to make me feel invested in the process? There were visually obvious paths for each of them, even to a stupid human like me. There are two unroutes… but they are far from deal breakers. It looks like this while routing…Īfter about 10 minutes of taping and ripping, it passed back this route… While Diptrace is far from perfect, at least it doesn’t continually punch me in the face like EagleCAD does.ĭiptrace has an autorouter baked in, and it is only one click away.
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Diptrace AutorouterĪs far as Windows EDA goes, I am a Diptrace fan.
Don’t give me an almost finished route where you do all the easy parts, leaving me to try and clean up your seemingly unroutable mess. Conclusion: Give me reasonable defaults – or at least ask me what I want. It would have taken hours and hours of doing large parts of the route over to get everything connected. Everything is totally walled into a corner, with no obvious way out. Really computer, you couldn’t figure this one out on your own?… Not bad looking from afar, but there are still 4 unroutes! Looking closer, one of them is a silly no brainer. Here is the best route it could come up with after about 15 minutes…
Not a good default behavior! So I bumped up all the the iterations so it would at least try. This first time I ran it, it finished in a couple of seconds with 12 unroutes. Shape based, optimal routing solution adapting to the natural flow of the nets while following advanced DFM and timing constraints. I’ll try on future designs to see if the magic lasts, and will report back here! KONEKT ELECTRA It gave me a usable (actually excellent!) design with only a couple minutes worth of work on my part. I will report if/when I am finally able to buy it! Conclusion: TopoR is very, very cool and gets so much so right.
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You have to register on the website to place an order, and the registration doesn’t seem to work. Unfortunately, it seems to be hard to buy. Even if it only worked on this design, it would have already paid for itself. Will this make them harder to inspect after reflow? We’ll see! Maybe there is a way to turn this off, but I can’t find it.Īfter seeing this output, I was ready to buy TopoR. I am a little concerned about the way the traces sometimes connect to the corners of the LED pads. Wow! I do so love the optimal directness of the traces! This is a nice route! It presented a layout with every trace routed and not a single design rule violation…
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Look at all those crazy topographically guided spiderwebs! After about an hour of my CPU blowing at full blast while I watched cat videos, TopoR suggested that it had done about all it could do. This is what TopoR looks like while routing…. Topographical routing with smoothly curved, minimal length traces. I’m guessing it would take me at least 10 hours to manually route this board, and I would be grumpy the whole time, and I would not be happy with the results because I demand better quality than I have the skills or time to be able to produce. Many (but not all) components on the board must be in fixed locations: This new version adds a Service Port so developers can talk to their programs at 0.5Mbs while debugging (way cool, right?!). It is basically an Arduino with RGB LEDs for blinking and IR LEDs for communicating. Let’s try out a few of the latest and greatest auto-routing programs to see how useful they are routing my new board! The BoardĪ new PCB for the Blinks gaming platform. Why are we humans still wasting our time doing a crappy job at manually routing printed circuit board traces? If a computer can beat the best Go player on earth, surely it can route a mess of traces better than idiot me!
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