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This runs in wine (I’m using crossover 9). thanks for the great reference.
After many hours of searching around the internet, it seems a lot of people have different opinions on some of these measurements (such as trace spacing as a function of voltage, and trace width as a function of current, via size, etc.). Do you guys at DP agree with the measurements that this program yields?
I think everyone is going to have a slightly different take. It’s nice to have a quick reference though. I guess a potential solution is to store all the values in a config file and make them user editable and share-able like a DRC :) (maybe this is already the case).