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The PCB Auto Router is a feature of a PCB-design software that places traces automatically.

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I made the FreeRoute 1.3.1 autorouter route the following two-layer PCB I had made with KiCad 6.0.11: Unfortunately, the autorouter apparently gets caught in an endless loop after some 15 minutes. It ...
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I am pretty new to kicad, and hope i can find some advice here? (I could share the kicad example schematics too, if needed) I am having a this example schematics. Here you see a power supply for 2 ...
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I need to do autorouting in Altium CircuitMaker. I have only found information how to do autorouting in Altium Designer. What I need to know is to set up rules and enviroment for autorouting with the ...
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On the top GND polygon, I have orphans turned off, yet somehow I'm still getting a polygon on Q1's GND. Eagle won't route a wire to this orphan. I've turned orphans on/off and ratsnest, but nothing ...
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Please give my design a once over. I think I have found everything but I am nervous. This is my first PCB design. A 4x4 CNY70 (Reflective Optical Sensor) matrix read by a analog/digital mux breakout ...
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After uploading my PCB design for manufacture, I got an error message about an input pin (#14) of one of the ICs (U4; a TDA7560 amp) being connected to GND and GNDA: ...
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Why do I get this error message every time? I don't have it open, I've restarted my computer several times and it still gives me error messages. (Self-answered below, including Auto Router port issues,...
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I have a push-button component in Eagle 8.2.1. The same kind of thing as described in this question: Eagle - How to make the router ignore internally connected pins (in a package) Contrary to the ...
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Hi I'm designing a custom Jetson Nano Carrier Board according to Jetson_Nano_Carrier_Board_OrCAD_Schematics file. And as may you know, from DC Jack you can supply 5V 4A to the board. The problem is, ...
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I wonder how can I make Altium autorouter to place a short track and then use via to connect SMD IC pads on one side to a polygon on another side? Should I define any rules? Should I change any ...
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I made a fairly complex circuit (at least for my level). After spending a few hours trying to manually autoroute, I had like only 5% finished, and every time run into obstacles of not being able to ...
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Prefacing this by saying I'm entirely new to designing electronics for a PCB and I've only worked with breadboards before, so if there's more that I'm doing wrong in my project besides just the PCB ...
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I have a board with three 32 input analog multiplexers, along with more components, connected to a 96 way DIN connector. How do I manually tell the autorouter to select only the muxers signals? I ...
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Is there a way to use Altium to automatically generate test points on an already routed board? When there is no usable via, I'd like to place a pad on the net. When reviewing Altium API reference ...
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I'm trying to manually fanout 5 bga's on my 6 layer board. Tried using Eagle's default Auto BGA router and kept coming up with problems regarding my additional layers being used but not enabled, I ...
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I've been trying to place my ICs properly to allow the autorouter to route the ICs with no success, I'm a total beginner at this and I tried routing manually with no success, any hints? The board is 1 ...
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Personally I'm having trouble with eagle's bgaAutoRouter when I use it, it's not doing the bga tracks and routes and I'm wasting a lot of time looking for how to make it work. my settings in image. ...
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I am looking for an open-source circuit layout routing tool (with scripting option) for custom layout design. For example: I design a NAND schematic and convert it into layout and place components (...
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I managed to route an entire complex board with eagle, or so I thought. At first it worked. Then I began adding large fills (ground planes and VCC planes) in order to minimize impedance. I now added ...
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Eagle CAD autorouter places tracks too close to vias. I tried to change some parameters in the design rules but without a good result.
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How to set the width of all the traces together to the desired value before using autoroute option in Autodesk Eagle? every time I use autoroute, the trace width is by default set to 0.0154mm. I have ...
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I'm using Altium for my board layouts, and for the most part, I hand rout the boards. I'm currently working on a particularly dense board, so I decided to use the autorouter after hand routing about ...
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I need to make one LED PCB Bord for lighting using SO i have designed my schematic into Altium designer V16, like this (single side ): So according ANSI / IPC-2221/IPC-2221A design standards for My ...
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I am laying out a PCB using EAGLE 7.7.0 for Linux (64 bit). When I run the Autorouter (high effort) it runs 22 variants of the routing, and all 22 produce 100% complete routing. Below the dialogue ...
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I am using autoroute option in Altium designer (for only bottom layer), but in result I see some tracks overlapped to each other, as you can see in this photo: So I think when the Altium could not ...
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I'm trying to auto-route a PCB which eagle determines there are 400 connections to. Sometimes I reach 100% and sometimes I reach 99.5 and 99.8% and as I watch the progress, sometimes eagle claims ...
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I know one obvious way is to upgrade to a modern computer but not a lot of people can afford to do that. What I have attempted to do to try to speed up auto-routing operation is to add lines from the ...
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I'm using the eagle autorouter to route my PCB because it makes cleaner tracks than if I did it myself. One problem I have is that sometimes it insists on attempting to make the same connection over ...
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Some chips with high input voltages have a very tiny package. For instance, power gauge INA226 has a maximum convert voltage of 36V, but it's in MSOP8 package, the distance between two pins in its ...
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I felt like I spent a week trying to route the same circuit. I then look in the manual for hints, and it talks about how the status of the autorouter includes the number of tracks that it believes are ...
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Here's the issue with eagle autorouter and me trying to connect a 62256 ram chip to a 74HC574 latch (even with clock and latch enable disconnected) I measured the width in the trouble IC (74HC574) ...
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I'm struggling to get the Eagle Autorouter (Eagle 7.6) to route only the VCC (layer 2) and GND (layer 15) layer on a 4 layer board. I have created a net class for VCC and GND. Now I would like to have ...
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I am making my second board using Eagle CAD. I have different components with a set of different sizes. I set the minimum width for lines to be x. That way, the autorouter creates EVERY line in that ...
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Using Eagle for mac, I am trying to autoroute the board. I have set the trace width to 8. He start the process and it takes him about 2 minutes, than he stops at some point and show the next ...
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I created a board in Eagle, autorouted it and then moved components around. Is it possible to autoroute again, because now the wires are not straight. If I autoroute it just ignores existing wires.
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The circuit design software I have seen has the ability to automatically route traces etc. on a PCB. But why doesn't this software have the ability to automatically place components on a PCB say to ...
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Is it possible to have the Eagle autorouter swap gates or pins on parts allowing such exchanges to untangle traces ?
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I've been having difficulty finishing the routing on a PCB I've designed. This is the first time this has happened really. I have miles of free space, yet it only gets to 96.4%. Anyways, I can't find ...
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When I use the autorouter in eagle for creating simple traces (the more difficult ones I'm doing on my own) it stops at 98.2%, but no trace is left unrouted. Why don't I get 100%? How do I find out ...
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I am using the CAD drawing for the DS2777 from Maxim Integrated. http://www.maximintegrated.com/en/design/packaging/cad/?phase=proc&return_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.maximintegrated.com%2Fen%2Fdesign%...
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I'm having trouble routing this PCB in Eagle 7.1: I have tried the following: Autorouting - it could not complete Moving components around Manually routing - I always ended up getting stuck Adding a ...
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I have made a tactile switch package and as the picture shows pin 1 and 2 are internally connected, same for pin 3 and 4. The package have 4 pads and the symbol only 2. I have connected pads 1+2 with ...
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Is it possible to give different names to different parts of the same net in KiCAD? I'm setting up to do an autorouted layout (yes, I know, autorouters are evil, but they save a lot of time and ...
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I am making a custom footprint for a component. However if I use the component then Eagle doesn't auto route any connections to that component. Does anyone have any ideas?
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I'm testing Eagle autorouter while changing the value in various ways. Is there way to reset the parameter values for returning to default settings?
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I'm using Eagle Autorouter. This works fine. But sometimes via is created in the distant location. Does anyone know the cause? Image is using 10mil Grid. Center-Top small one is the via of this ...
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I've just finished designing a PCB in Eagle. Now I want to use the freerouting.net autorouter to route my board (because Eagle's default auto is crap, sadly). The one problem: converting my Eagle PCB ...
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Is there any usable program that could help me organize elements on PCB breadboards? Or maybe some kind of autorouter? By PCB breadboard I mean something like this:
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In Eagle I often prefer to route some wires myself (power, xtal, UBS, etc), and leave the rest to the autorouter. When I am not pleased with the result I route some more myself, and let the autorouter ...
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Why does Fritzing's Autoroute leave unrouted connections? Is there any way to tell it to route every connection?
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