X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-user-bounces using -f X-Recipient: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-Original-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=okqJlrDZNhzxPY42ObHnExgSXiE9FY8kRQvq6tcFV1A=; b=Bs1GjrpdHg/tLSOMVeOfmQBOOlhqSoFN5bdeYnFCQ3ckgTOxZwrAMNb9o3k5BdBu2O BV+b5KKL5iMDawkPyhordDffcmICO5eALsbBONyiUXaI+xlzNk74yKLom8Czz4fBgzi+ zJJqYv4tprtgHeJFl3OKdA7KTG3UQXp7MqmqbJoruoopSEF40zC4n+E1t+W1nxTEvQdR tLYSSRsxCVu8nUmmWUASJ0XvmUoZSyxERkx0xx65OBMiZtZRfx2OoamJ8b7lBJnPgeUe DSGMqvv5w/OAn92KbReuL02MjTsw2WBCDpPwrVjp2qaA2MDV5pweEoHRMv4vv9WZBLbR ElZQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.152.20.228 with SMTP id q4mr107699lae.74.1440617654743; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 12:34:14 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <55D8D8B8 DOT 7050907 AT jump-ing DOT de> <55D9BDC7 DOT 4000608 AT jump-ing DOT de> <20150826180132 DOT 2828eeae AT Parasomnia DOT thuis DOT lan> Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 15:34:14 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [geda-user] Antifork From: "Evan Foss (evanfoss AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Reply-To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 12:19 PM, wrote: > > > On Wed, 26 Aug 2015, Bas Gieltjes wrote: > >> >> >>>> I keep seeing mentions of this legendary router. I have been these >>>> gEDA lists +10 years but I don't remember it. What was the big >>>> appeal if it? >>> >>> >>> It's a non-orthogonal router with good performance metrics. The >>> description is academic but it looks not too hard to add keep-out >>> areas, additional costs to the cost functions, etc. I don't know how >>> far Stefan ever got with those real-life >>> features. I've lost the paper its based on but it was fairly >>> readable. >> >> >> See PCB's toporouter.c file, it mentions five publications. >> >> Here is Stefan's reimplementation using Ruby, including images: >> http://www.ssalewski.de/Router.html.en > > > Nice. If anyone feels like investing time in it, I can provide all support > from pcb-rnd's side to get this a working pcb-rnd script. Form the user's > perspective this'd mean full integration. Ditto, I really want the ability to nudge traces and later on to route as bus or route as diff. pair or route as matched length. > Regards, > > Igor2 -- Home http://evanfoss.googlepages.com/ Work http://forge.abcd.harvard.edu/gf/project/epl_engineering/wiki/