Can autorouters take advantage of moving around I/O pins on a microcontroll=
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function will be used for what.

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connect these in the schematics, autoroute again and so on?

/Ruben

> On 16/05/2013 07:07, IVP wrote:
> >> autorouter (I use eagle) can connect them, then why not
> >> use the result? I certainly can't do it faster!
> >
> > Me too. The autorouter does most of the hard work, it's not
> > a big deal (personally) to go over it by hand and tweak it for
> > eg a little extra clearance here and there, remove the odd via
> > and so on, or even just to make it 'look nicer'
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> It can at least be a guide that you are on the right path.
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> David


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