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Re:LibrePCB – Create electronics the easy way by sweetjuly on Friday September 29, 2023 @03:04AM (#37700232)
What's so special about retrocomputing that makes it more tractable for autorouting? Autorouting isn't a thing in industry for PCB design because managing EMI for modern ICs is so challenging. Is retrocomputing able to get away with it due to slow rise times on very old chips?
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Re:LibrePCB – Create electronics the easy way by phendrenad2 on Friday September 29, 2023 @10:28PM (#37712303)
Exactly, EMC is only really an issue above 50MHz, much higher than most retrocomputers were capable of.
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Re:LibrePCB – Create electronics the easy way by bogantech on Saturday September 30, 2023 @05:18AM (#37713853)
The issue is not the frequency of your signals but the edge rate.
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Re:LibrePCB – Create electronics the easy way by phendrenad2 on Saturday September 30, 2023 @01:50PM (#37717929)
That's... not entirely true actually.
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