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[Lorenzo Marcantonio <l.marcantonio@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 10:39:57AM -0600, Dick Hollenbeck wrote:

> This is putting your money where your mouth is.

Agreed. Did the same thing a while ago on one of our usual horribly mixed-signal board (seven different supplies on four layer, big loads and tiny transducer voltages; about 13 pages of A4 schematics) for a rebuild of our component library; fabricator is happy since he hasn't to fix during panelization, boss is even happier, since it worked at the first power on :D

Actually it seems that our (man-hours) investment in kicad is more effective than one (euros) in a conventional license (be it altium, orcad or some more expensive package). Now on the work a blackfin board for image processing (camera onboard). Hope to fit in 4 layers:P

Also using kicad for production work helps dislodging bugs (obviously version control helps when a more stable version is needed:D)

> At the time we go nanometer internally:
> 
> *) the board files will actually be in millimeters.  (Only a matter of where the decimal
> point is, there will be resolution down to nanometer.)
> 
> *) we have a relatively unique opportunity to significantly change the PCBNEW board format.

Applauses here

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