Re: gEDA-user: transition of pcb internal units to metric (SI, mm)

[Stephan Boettcher <boettcher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John Doty <jpd@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> I doubt PCB will ever be a suitable tool for chip design.

Why?  It should not make that a priority.  But the hierachical features
outlined elsewhere, layer types, a sufficiently generic via mechanism,
its not too far from making it possible to do chip design.

Hierachy, blind and burried vias, all these PCB features are on the
list.  Just steer the development just a little bit to make it general
enough in the core/file formats.  The GUI may be 100% PCB by default and
hide the generality from the user.

Chip design will then need another pile of code to interpret the
drawing in terms a silocon technology, at least a gds2 exporter.

-- 
Stephan



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