Kicad lacks a physical design language
Bug #1749474 reported by
jt_eaton
This bug affects 5 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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KiCad |
Fix Released
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Unknown
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Bug Description
Kicad lacks a physical design language needed to pass engineering notes from the schematic to the layout program.
A component and netlist does not contain enough information to design anything but the simplest PCB. Trace and placement requirements are usually listed in engineering notes that must be manually transferred and implemented.
Kicad needs to define a way to enter this information in such a way that it can be used by the pcb program .
Changed in kicad: | |
importance: | Wishlist → Unknown |
status: | Expired → New |
Changed in kicad: | |
status: | New → Fix Released |
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Would you give some examples? The simplest one I can think of are track impedance constraints or differential pair definitions. I have frequently seen simple text messages saying e.g. "place C1 next to IC5", but they are just notes for the layout designer, not the layout application. I am curious about your ideas.