alt Hacker NewsThis is conceptually interesting to me because I see this as almost a more generic TI Webench. I’m curious why your focus in the sized “grid” blocks (presumably for placement directly on the PCB layout) instead of doing the same but for the schematic. That way I still have the flexibility of laying out the board how I want to meet eg mechanical constraints instead of working around a 12.7mm grid.
I saw routing as equally as big of a headache as the schematic, so formalizing the layout to a grid means layout becomes a compilation problem, not a design problem.
My intent for phaestus isn't to design pcb's, it's to design entire products, and also to be friendly to non technical users who don't know what a PCB is, let alone do layout themselves.