On 16/05/2013 09:47, Ruben J=F6nsson wrote:
> Can autorouters take advantage of moving around I/O pins on a microcontro=
ller
> to best fit the component layout or does it strictly follow the schematic=
s?
>
> When I do designs with microcontrollers (which seems to be everytime now)=
 and
> especially with the PIC24/32 that has peripheral pin select, I don't fini=
sh the
> schematics until I have placed the components on the board and routed mos=
t
> fixed connections so that I can decide which I/O-port pin or peripheral
> function will be used for what.
>
> But I guess I can just do the same with the autorouter - connect the fixe=
d
> connections, aoutoroute, see which moveable connections will be best and
> connect these in the schematics, autoroute again and so on?

With Eagle I think you could possibly do this using pinswap, see the=20
article below:

http://dangerousprototypes.com/2013/02/12/eagle-tip-gateswap-and-pinswap-to=
ol/

David
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