AVR-Chat

David VanHorn wrote:
> At 08:29 PM 7/6/2004 +0200, Jesper Hansen wrote:
> 
> 
>>Autoroute is not magic !
>>You will always be able to do a better fit manually.
>>
>>I don't think ANY autorouter can do better than an
>>experienced person routing manually.
>>
>>Autoroute only, should really only be used on non-critical
>>boards.
> 
> 
> I've never seen an autorouter that actually worked, on real world boards.
> By that I mean boards where it matters not only that all the nets are connected, but that large pulse currents return to the proper places.
> 
> On the packages where I can tell it these things, I could have manually routed it faster than I can tell it all the rules. 
> 
> I use autorouters for density checking.

Apart from the fact the rules take so long to program up, Spectra does a 
good job, but it is ~us$30K per license :(

But I agree, is reason why I have stayed at protel 99SE, I manual route 
all my PCB's and I can do a far better Job (I guess 15 years experiance 
dose that)

Regards,

Kat.

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