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Re: New (free) PCB software

2010-07-13 by James

--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, Casainho <casainho@...> wrote:
>
> KiCad is free and Free :-)
> 
> There is one KiCad user doing "professional" boards which I admire. The
> latest board is a 2 layers, ARM9 @ 454MHZ and 32MBytes SDRAM:
> http://lyre.sourceforge.net/?q=content/imx233-sdram-works-133mhz
> 
> :-)
> 
> 
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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It's as good as any of the expensive packages I've evaluated too. It's not perfect, but none of them are, the important part is that it is stable, and produces nice quality boards. All of mine so far have worked perfectly.

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