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Re:Google offers free fabbing for 130nm open-source chips by pantalaimon on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @06:41AM (#23757713)
KiCad nightly can now import Altium Design files, might want to give it a try ;)

https://kicad-pcb.org/blog/2020/04/Development-Highlight-Alt...

Re:Google offers free fabbing for 130nm open-source chips by mhh__ on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @10:07AM (#23759418)
KiCad is getting very good but it requires a lot of work to compete with the big boys - for example there's no signal integrity built in, and impedance control is fairly detached from your board i.e. I don't think you can do RC on impedance control yet. I don't need a huge amount but signal integrity is fairly important for the project I'm designing.