| ID: | 4246 |
| From: | Evan Foss <ev...@gmail.com> |
| Date: | Mon, 6 Jul 2020 01:27:58 -0400 |
| Subject: | Re: [pcb-rnd] rf filter test data |
| in-reply-to: | 4200 from ge...@igor2.repo.hu |
| replies: | 4250 from Erich Heinzle <a1...@gmail.com> |
On Sun, Jun 21, 2020 at 2:16 AM <gedau@igor2.repo.hu> wrote: > > Hi Evan, > > On Sun, 21 Jun 2020, Evan Foss wrote: > > >Hi Fellow Pcb-RNDrs > > > >I asked this person who is doing simulator testing if they could share > >their validation data and they did! > >https://twitter.com/ElectronicsbyJH/status/1273114195987488769 > >They also have tests of connector insertion loss. > >https://twitter.com/ElectronicsbyJH/status/1271589349017243648 > > Cool! > > >Also: is it just me or is kicad really behind UI wise? > >https://www.reddit.com/r/TheAmpHour/comments/hazb79/rf_tools_for_kicad/ > > > I think that video shows an addon, probably something like what we would > have in an user script in pcb-rnd. > > To me, as I wrote in the other mail, this addon looks like a collection of > very much specialised tools, not a generic toolbox - for creating your RF > transmission line. > > (In theory we could write a similar script, if there's strong user demand > on that. It wouldn't be very hard to map a trace you click, then draw a > mask opening above it or draw two line-of-vias around it and set > attributes so we could pick them up later for editing. I guess it'd all > be some few 100 lines of script with all the GUI dialogs included. I am > just not sure we have active user demand for this already - I mean I > write a lot of scripts, even upon user request, and I am not sure users > then really use those scripts at all or revert back manually doing > everything!) > > So I think it's not about kicad UI in general, it's only about a specific > addon's offer. Then whether kicad supports real arcs on copper or it is > just line approximation, whether kicad has native UI for drawing them, > whether that is more efficient than opening a dialog box for each arc, are > the real UI questions, but we won't figure that from this video. Not that I care about kicad that much or that I suggest we follow them but this is what kicad's are support will look like soon. https://twitter.com/pdp7/status/1278828265994686464 But like you said it could still be fake in that they could be storing the arcs as improperly as you suggest. > Regards, > > Igor2 > > -- https://github.com/evanfoss -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: GnuPG v2 mQENBFYy4RYBCAC183JomLtbdAlcKiaPDoVHq52LDmVmH75aiEc69m7YxDt54/ai VtYCAobbGVIyn3Hlz3uhF6LnPl/6Lm1VdnCfpwu3KQhCO6ds10ow2C30X4ohCqOd hCVg5C+ILmQkEffFrFODy3ji+PYTF4pADvHCWsTMv0hf0llwFOJsBCK6cl02IffE JPqy4PjM1nZ9HpzT84JBaG/4OGvTZ8SQ2yFUl265jagvygPTf88H1xpZHH1r8dB1 stjUHLmPH8AOyDgKxFchgGeDc3p/vJtgDDIXAFfDXG0NSRovLmtaQdGxe47Zf/go bXiEM7YL2WqQe5zfEA919JxkEwlDKYniOSVzABEBAAG0N0V2YW4gRm9zcyAoVGhp cyBpcyBteSBwdWJsaWMga2V5LikgPGV2YW5mb3NzQGdtYWlsLmNvbT6JATkEEwEC ACMFAlYy4RYCGwMHCwkIBwMCAQYVCAIJCgsEFgIDAQIeAQIXgAAKCRCIpQTcE8nN bbBaCACAm8pU5lG1ev2Fsw68Axtcl57SJrYieqX96c3YuYH9JpqMqJRnd9nDKw9X tQuvuH7tUk0VbOaDqReOYJVI/4c5wb9AaOFp6K2DUcupq6XhgXpvz3HzoPwjAdIj XuQzdRUx5+innTJrSkGuBYW/CZ2zqEx4xfLlq4rO0hoTUMR8QVp2cCrkw6BT0m86 APIw/ZnjoxM8IEzr7MxfRIg3qpzrZk28rmhx+k78Jyk61UhwcCPGIm/pjUopTwYJ 3YBdRB2cYD2aN7A1JVf5cRmSQYooHBGpH0kYvomGk97PKqypVuJ7OpG9xM58wUcC qUVt9hKlePLzP8csYjt8onqI7qIIuQENBFYy4RYBCADlH8spG3WkCx62vB5mr5Z0 SCDd/RcyA4A5y5EOj5KurQkrSWpgi9Ho1yKruMJ6blQR2qkc66KqH9pnXDm/ZI1M K/wdW3ngETxBmXoozzFMT89aEWIVR5/PFodWK1elekE9iJxACuR98Zg2QttTD3x8 A9w8VEyMLOXcDTrPFpHegMKswFBg5iuMulAdXAoGejWTI3n+qKFpabHm2Lfs6wjk 5rjucpTdeFK6UeWF1xAvNxXibuu5BlGwv53930qIXRwO/Gn2Rh5DXWxKU2fEIme/ xgQQmIsDeUoWbfybdjw/x7Q0LW4mINiLDQcGHHRQKFIxbAJCT3USPLGh5xwE9/Er ABEBAAGJAR8EGAECAAkFAlYy4RYCGwwACgkQiKUE3BPJzW0uYAf9Hf30n8tM3mR2 Zo6ESE0ivgdgjaJtAWrBUx7JzAzPjBnBOlNnu5Y9lVEqetvUPH6e3PvaHYUuaUU8 0HwxuKBW9nUprgV6uIu1DZmlcp+SxpbuCy7RDpNocRLNWWFMaYYzznmTgfnTgD4D gCq8Mf1mcfrluTkOAo+QNqbMfl1GISClopRqxVuAo59ewgMnFujwgd8w12BwWl24 CzqOs5HqcUslePj+LzcjSNgVCklYwKl+0dsb/fctMOCtHodwqm2CBJ+zydvNmYkD fxda/J91Z1xrah5ec++FL0L4vs+jCiIWJeupJFKlr1hCMZiiGH7W554loK5l4jv3 EY347EidAw== =Ta4p -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
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4246 Re: [pcb-rnd] rf filter test data from Evan Foss <ev...@gmail.com>
4250 Re: [pcb-rnd] rf filter test data from Erich Heinzle <a1...@gmail.com>