Re: gEDA-user: autorouter fixes and enhancements (Harry Eaton)

[Bill Gatliff <bgat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Anthony Blake wrote:
> It is slowly getting there though. Here are some shots of Harry's LED 
> board, with two different net ordering heuristics:
> http://wand.net.nz/~amb33/toporouter/LED.png
> http://wand.net.nz/~amb33/toporouter/LED-layerhint.png
>
> All nets were routed with no vias. After seeing Harry's results using no 
> vias, I realized there was a problem in my net ordering which was 
> resulting in some big detours. It's on the list of things to fix.
>
> I've also been playing with automatic length matching: 
> http://wand.net.nz/~amb33/toporouter/matching.png - Now I have an idea 
> about how to do it better.
>   

Wow... that's amazing!  Both the LED board and the length matching stuff.

> BTW, if anyone wants to help, adding the ability to remove and insert 
> vertices in the GNU GTS CDT code after building the CDT would really 
> help, and is out of the way of what I'm currently working on. This would 
> enable via's to be added by the toporouter.
>   

Well, since before now I didn't even know about GTS, I reckon I'm not
the best person to help out.  :)

But man, I can't wait for you to deploy this code!  Exciting!


b.g.


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