[mmac_]

Kicad is the best free EDA I've used and I know many others that use it. The active development and large community make it a no-brainer.

I use Altium professionally ($$$) and I feel like Kicad could cover most of the boards I work on. FYI I've seen a few advanced PCB's done in Kicad successfully - just not sure how much manual calculations/work they had to do.

Kicad + the cheap online PCB vendors are a killer combination.

[533474]

Do you have any example(s) of an advanced KiCAD board?

[mntmn]

I've made 2 laptops in KiCAD:

https://source.mnt.re/reform/reform

https://source.mnt.re/reform/pocket-reform

[lovelearning]

This is the most awesome thing I've come across on HN in recent months if not years!

[ruslan]

> Made With

> KiCAD EDA > OpenSCAD > LUFA > Autodesk Fusion (Case parts)

This is really awesome. Kudos for KiCAD and OpenSCAD.

[mr337]

That is impressive!

[MegaDeKay]

Another example: the HackRF SDR board was done in KiCAD

https://github.com/greatscottgadgets/hackrf

[cushychicken]

Kicad has a bunch of examples of boards made with Kicad on their homepage.

Tons of stuff on par with a Raspberry Pi or BeagleBone Black, with DRAM, eMMC, and PCIe routing, plus all the fine pitch placements for supporting circuitry. PMICs get dense in these applications.

[ruslan]

Here's my OSHW FPGA board made in KiCAD: https://github.com/Fabmicro-LLC/Karnix_ASB-254

Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr0pdGuJbXQ

[junon]

https://github.com/oro-os/link/tree/master/pcb/link-x86-obt

Not the best laid out PCB or the best project structure. But it works, and it's fairly complex.