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KiCad gets support for length matched traces

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ConnorGames:
Commit message from 8 hours ago: "Merged the differential pair router & track length tuning tool."

It seems to work, although it is a little clunky right now, and you can't annotate length matched traces on the schematic far as I can tell, but that will probably be easy to add. To try it out, get a <8 hour old build of KiCad, open up Pcbnew, switch to opengl canvas, and go to route>tune track length or route>differential pair. Right click for preferences.

Looks like I now have one less excuse for not learning about high-speed digital design yet. What are your thoughts? What features does KiCad need next if it is aiming to be competitive with professional packages?

c4757p:
Give it time before you dive in. Those of us poking at in on freenode:#kicad have found at least three crashy bugs so far.

It's a massive merge.

krivx:
The demo video is worth a watch and should answer some questions:

firewalker:
Yep. There are some nasty segfaults.

Alexander.

JohnnyBerg:

--- Quote from: ConnorGames on March 03, 2015, 09:30:50 pm ---Looks like I now have one less excuse for not learning about high-speed digital design yet. What are your thoughts? What features does KiCad need next if it is aiming to be competitive with professional packages?

--- End quote ---

I use KiCad a lot. I wouldn't need new features. I just wanna be more productive. There are a lot of things that could be more automated or done more logical.
When I make a change in the schematic for example, before I get that change in the pcb .. so many clicks.

Fix that first, then talk new features.

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