[Arm-netbook] HDMI High-Frequency Layout: Recommendations--Taper

[Richard Wilbur]

On Sat, Dec 9, 2017 at 9:37 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
<lkcl at lkcl.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 12:30 AM, Richard Wilbur
> <richard.wilbur at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Good grief that took awhile!  I'm now completely sold on the
>> concept of Computer-Aided Design (I've used some awkward implementations
>>before but this was done with pencil, pen, measuring tape, and book spine
>> for straight edge).
>
>  ... what... you don't just draw them by hand? :)
>
> rright.  there's no way i'm doing this layout by hand.

God forbid!  I had no intention of recommending anyone do the layout
by hand.  I was doing part of it that way and lamenting the
inconvenience.

>  i'm going to
> do something that i meant to do a long time ago: investigate how to
> use the DCOM interface to PADS.  that *shudder* means installing
> python2.7 under windows.
>
>  basically it should be perfectly possible to use the COM interface to
> hunt down the tracks by name, and in an *automated* fashion add in
> track segments according to the layout you designed, richard.
>
>  what that also means is, if i get it wrong, it's a simple matter of
> adjusting the python program to redo it.
>
>  ohh dearie me :)

Sounds pretty cool--like a plugin interface for PADS?