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

[Philipp Klaus Krause <pkk@xxxxxxx>]

Am 08.02.2011 12:17, schrieb John Doty:
> 
> On Feb 8, 2011, at 3:48 AM, Stephan Boettcher wrote:
> 
>> John Doty <jpd@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> 
>>> I doubt PCB will ever be a suitable tool for chip design.
>> 
>> Why?
> 
> Because it's far too ad hoc in its design. It's a collection of
> special features, lacking any fundamental notion of a design as a
> composition of geometric objects with properties.

There already are free tools for chip design, like magic
(http://opencircuitdesign.com/magic/), I don't see why pcb should get
into chip design.

Philipp


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