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Would You Be Interested in Roadtesting KiCad EDA?

rscasny
rscasny over 3 years ago

KiCad has a following on the element14 Community, so we figured it would be a good thing to roadtest. It's a little different than what we usually roadtest, so we have a few questions. KiCad is free, so we were wondering what the potential roadtesters would like to see in the roadtest kit. There was a suggestion for the roadtesters to design a Raspberry Pi HAT. But we could also use a Pi/Ardunio library or even someone's own design. 

I have some polls below. I'd appreciate you voting. Thanks.


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  • cstanton
    cstanton over 2 years ago in reply to amitha_ntu

    ?

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    amitha_ntu over 2 years ago

    PC104 OBC for Cubesat using FPGA

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  • Jan Cumps
    Jan Cumps over 3 years ago in reply to colporteur

    see  shabaz' work Arrow up

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  • shabaz
    shabaz over 3 years ago in reply to Jan Cumps

    Hi Jan Cumps  I tried KiPart, and followed your KiPart video - it was just what I needed.

    I managed to do this 64-pin chip in a fraction of the normal time! I specified in the CSV file which side I wished everything to be, and it's all perfect. I will move some of the left side pins around because I had not figured out the order at the time, but all other sides are exactly how I planned them to be.

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  • Andrew J
    Andrew J over 3 years ago in reply to COMPACT

    I'm a bit late, but this is what KiCad does with multi-function parts, e.g. 4 op amp chips which separate each op amp and the power supply.

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    beacon_dave over 3 years ago in reply to kmikemoo

    Looking at the ADALM2000 module, perhaps a 'T-Cobbler' style breadboard-friendly breakout board would be useful and a simple starter project ?

    Single 30way IDC ribbon from the ADALM2000 to a PCB that spans the central breadboard 'ravine' with two 15pin rows of thru-headers with clear labelling of all pins on the silkscreen.

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  • suf
    suf over 3 years ago

    Using KiCAD for the last (I don't even sure) maybe 14 years. It would be great to test some newer features, edge cases. Just to push the limits a bit. :-)

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  • COMPACT
    COMPACT over 3 years ago in reply to michaelkellett

    I can't understand why. It's the first thing I did with logic gates (& separate the power pins as a component).

    One thing I've loathed with many schematic capture products are giant sized traditional logic symbols, poor graphics primitives or even lores bitmaps.

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    COMPACT over 3 years ago in reply to johnmitchell

    I like having the power supply pins appear on the PDN (power distribution network) portion of schematics where applicable. This is easily done when you split up chips into functional components.

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    ischonfeld over 3 years ago

    This would be an interesting Roadtest for me if it hit at a time when I needed to design a small board. As far as what I'd like to see in the kit, perhaps if could include the production of the board being designed. Size and layers would probably need to be limited. 

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