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by xw3099 3y ago
This deck has a great introduction to mapping and the references at the end are more up to date https://www.eng.biu.ac.il/temanad/files/2018/11/Lecture-4-Sy...
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by xw3099 3y ago
That book is really great if it’s your job to write timing constraints. If you’re interested in timing theory I think this is a bit better. https://books.google.com/books/about/Timing.html?id=80gOBwAA...
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by xw3099 3y ago
It’s definitely doable in one off quantities. And in fact people do it. Probably the most annoying thing would be dealing with length matching but honestly modern interfaces are much more tolerant than the specs imply. Power delivery coul
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by xw3099 3y ago
> surely no strategy that worked to launch a project from tiny seed to maturity and market saturation has ever then failed to keep it relevant in the long term... If the rate of submissions falls then it certainly makes sense to adjust.
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by xw3099 3y ago
It could definitely benefit. And if KiCAD wants to support larger systems then one might even argue they're required, eventually. What I mean is not all nets are created equal. Is this an edge sensitive gpio or a level sensistive? I
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by xw3099 3y ago
The barrier to automatic placement and route at the PCB level is not the algorithms. It the time it takes the user to create the routing constraints on the nets. For PCBs with less than, say, 100 nets. It's probably not worth it. Y
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by xw3099 3y ago
That book is great. This one is also quite good. https://books.google.com/books?id=EkPMBQAAQBAJ&printsec=fron... Handbook of Algorithms for Physical Design Automation edited by Charles J. Alpert, Dinesh P. Mehta, Sachi
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by xw3099 3y ago
> Maybe that's by design, but it doesn't feel sustainable in the long term. That could be, but on the other hand, the Linux kernel is more than 30 years old and is on its 6th version... One might also consider the rarity of mai