CERN BE-CO-HT Contribution to KiCad
This project has been set up to facilitate the contribution of CERN's
BE-CO-HT section to the KiCad Printed
Circuit Board design tool development. KiCad is a Free/Libre Open Source
Software Tool which runs on GNU/Linux, Windows and Apple OS X. It is
licensed under the GPL
license.
The objective of this project is to help enhance KiCad in such a way
that it becomes an efficient tool for PCB design which people can use to
share their design information without compromising productivity. We do
this in close collaboration with the main KiCad developers.
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.*
This contribution is part of our efforts in Open Source
Hardware. We describe our planned tasks and their progress using
a list of work packages.
There is a Git repository in this project that we use to test ideas and
as a handy temporary storage place. Please do not take this as
representing in any way whatsoever working code we would like to merge
into the KiCad main tree. Contributions to KiCad will happen through the
KiCad developers mailing list, in the standard ways defined by the main
KiCad
developers.
KiCad PCB layout snapshot, taken from http://www.kicad-pcb.org*
Detailed project information
- Work packages
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Publications
- Kicad push-and-shove routing Youtube
- CERN supports KiCad development Dangerous Prototypes (Apr.2013)
- KiCad: CERN's Contribution to Free/Open PCB Design, EETimes (Nov.2013)
Donations
Please visit the CERN and Society donations page if you would like to help us contribute more and faster.
Contacts
- Javier Serrano. Project leader. See also the Frequently Asked Questions.
- Maciej Sumiński. Developer.
Status
Date | Event |
11-04-2013 | Project announced in the KiCad developers mailing list. |
11-04-2013 | Maciej Sumiński submits a preliminary version of the View component to the KiCad developers list. |
09-07-2013 | Maciej Sumiński submits a second release of the View component for testing purposes. |
02-08-2013 | Tomasz Włostowski submits the Tool Framework technical description. |
28-08-2013 | The View component is available to run & build on the 3 major platforms (Linux, Windows & Mac OS X). |
19-09-2013 | Tomasz Włostowski publishes source code of the first version of the Push&Shove router. |
30-10-2013 | The CERN testing branch (Graphics Abstraction Layer, Tool Framework and Push&Shove router) is merged to the KiCad master branch. |
26-10-2013 | Ratsnest for the Graphics Abstraction Layer is released for testing. |
26 November 2013