On Saturday 18. May 2019 18.49.32 Jakub Kákona wrote:
And yes, Arun, unavailability of easily sharable CAD design formats is a blocker of potential widespread use by the community. But I personally hope, there will be enough appeal of open design files that I or someone else redesign it in KiCAD.
I guess you, Jakub, must be involved with the following...
https://github.com/MLAB-project/Modules https://github.com/MLAB-project/kicad-mlab
Does that mean that the SoC modules referenced there are KiCad designs?
On the topic of KiCad and designs related to the EOMA68-A20 cards, it is worth noting that the Olimex A64-OLinuXino board schematic and layout is available in KiCad format:
https://github.com/OLIMEX/OLINUXINO/tree/master/HARDWARE/A64-OLinuXino/A64-O...
It seems like earlier boards were done with Eagle, but I guess that they made the jump to KiCad in the last couple of years. An important aspect of the above board is the availability of component/footprint libraries:
https://github.com/OLIMEX/KiCAD
I am not going to argue in favour of KiCad's usability or otherwise, particularly since my computer probably doesn't have the performance to make it work very well, but it was possible to at least play around with the A64- OLinuXino design once I had set up some symbolic links to let KiCad find the libraries. (Also KiCad 5.0.2+dfsg1-1 was needed - from Debian testing - rather than the surprisingly earlier 5.0.0+dfsg1-1 found in Debian unstable.)
So perhaps someone who is better at KiCad might have some fun adapting that design. It is open (source) hardware, after all. There were a few people on this list a few years ago who might have given this a go, but I don't know what happened to them.
Paul