Homebrew PCBs

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From: "javaguy11111" <javaguy11111@...>
To: <Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 3:45 AM
Subject: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: Another Eagle question for the experts


> I have run into this problem but what you have described has not
> worked well for me. I may define a power class with a 5mm trace width,
> but that will not autoroute to a chip with a 1mm pin pitch.

You need to create breakout tracks and vias.

>
> As my designs have grown more complex I have found the eagle
> autorouter to be less and less useful and I have started routing
> manually more and more. I wonder if the autorouters from the more
> expensive software packages are more intelligent about such things.

The autorouters available for the low-end PCB software packages are a waste
of time.

Electra is a new autorouter that works with Eagle. I've been testing it with
Pulsonix, and it does a very good job. It's fairly expensive, though.

Leon
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Leon Heller, G1HSM
Email: aqzf13@...
My low-cost Philips LPC210x ARM development system:
http://www.geocities.com/leon_heller/lpc2104.html