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Re:KiCad 6.0.0 by bcantrill on Friday December 24, 2021 @06:10PM (#29678686)
We are using it for essentially all of our prototype boards here at Oxide (low complexity, low layer count) -- and keeping a very close eye on it for our larger boards, where we still suffer from proprietary software. (And to be clear, when I say "suffer", I don't mean the mere principle but the true pathologies of proprietary software: license servers dying; licenses expiring incorrectly; software dying, costing lost work; formats being proprietary; etc. etc., all of which we saw over the course of building our boards.) We've been waiting for KiCAD 6 for a while, and while it's not yet to the point that we can use it for everything, it's definitely on the right trajectory!
Re:KiCad 6.0.0 by e-_pusher on Friday December 24, 2021 @09:22PM (#29679750)
If you don’t mind me asking, what EDA tool are you guys using at the moment at Oxide for your motherboards?
Re:KiCad 6.0.0 by bcantrill on Sunday December 26, 2021 @05:42PM (#29697070)
Sorry, missed this question! We are (like many/most?) using OrCAD for schematic capture and Allegro for layout -- which is to say, Cadence and Cadence.