Differential pair routing
Pin swapping... ie a differential pair where the pins can be reversed
Pin agnostic routing, ie a MCU or FPGA where it doesn't matter which pin is used
Incremental part placement, unlike kicad where all the footprints get dumped on the board in a big mess at the start
These are things that bother me most in kicad (it does have diff pair routing)
Thanks - looking forward to taking it for a spin
Yes, uses KiCad's push&shove router
> Pin swapping... ie a differential pair where the pins can be reversed
Not really, but swapping P/N in a diffpair is as easy as selecting nets in the schematic and using the "swap nets" tools.
> Pin agnostic routing, ie a MCU or FPGA where it doesn't matter which pin is used
Not really, but you can draw the connections in the board editor and backannotate them into the schematic: https://horizon-eda.readthedocs.io/en/latest/backannotation....
> Incremental part placement, unlike kicad where all the footprints get dumped on the board in a big mess at the start
Yes, there's list showing all currently unplaced packages: https://imgur.com/ZrvRw46
How tightly integrated are the schematic editor and layout editor? Are they two separate programs like KiCad or can you eg. delete a component from the schematic and have it automatically removed from the PCB (but without nuking ALL non-schematic components from the PCB).
Definitely gonna give this one a try.