On: Intro to modern hardware prototyping

[wgj]

The team at CERN has made big improvements to KiCad, including the push and shove router: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCG4daPvuVI

Another good reason to think about KiCad is if you care about open formats (vs. Altium for example.) CERN's own statement [1]: "We think that KiCad can do to PCB design what the gcc compiler did to software: ensure there are no artificial barriers to sharing so that design and development knowledge can flow more freely."

[1] http://www.ohwr.org/projects/cern-kicad/wiki

[akiselev → wgj]

Ironically, CERN has one of the best open source part libraries for Altium.

[cruser → akiselev]

That's really cool of them.

Where can I find this library? Googling led me to the two sites below, but there's no download location in them.

[1] http://ts-dep-dem.web.cern.ch/ts-dep-dem/services/library/

[2] http://information-technology.web.cern.ch/services/software/...

[cruser → akiselev]

I found a 460MB CERN_ALTIUM_LIB_july_2014.7z file on torrent sites. Is this what you're talking about?