[analognoise]

Those routes look terrible. Maybe if everything you're doing is electrically short and there are no high speed routes, it would work great. Basically it's wonderful if all you make are blinkenlight projects.

But if you have to input all of the data that makes up a good route (including coupling, ground/power planes, trace length matching, PDN noise, stackup, EMI/C rules, etc, etc), and then review the whole thing anyway, what's the point of the autorouter?

Also the article says nothing about the various algorithms involved, which are interesting from a computational geometry standpoint. But the gulf between algorithm or academic example and "commercial router" is huge!

This blog post is just... not very good. It's how I imagine a software person who made some stupid blinky LED thing thinks about hardware.