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17:18:37
lukego
I'm also currently "floorplanning" the board into discrete modules. that's mostly for divide-and-conquer purposes e.g. to have small enough domains to do Screamer backtracking searches usefully in. but also because a lot of good PCBs seem to be designed that way in practice. https://twitter.com/lukego/status/1363497447532675077
17:34:12
lukego
oh also, experience so far suggests it's easier said than done to import geometry from vendor datasheets, which means e.g. diagrams like this in pdf files https://imgur.com/a/aKsigfY and I'm still thinking hard about how to get accurate and reliable footprints. I think though that I'll start with cartoonish approximations for writing the router and then get the fine details right at the end.