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@ekremturanfirat ekremturanfirat released this 28 Oct 16:06
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  • The PowerLab router is back, with a new engine: it routes from a plan you agree first and adds no DRC errors.
  • Routing plan first. Claude builds a routing plan from your schematic (gate drive, switch nodes, PWM and clocks first; power and sense lines next; test points and LEDs last) and shows it to you before routing. You can change any net's priority.
  • All nets at once. The router checks every pin's way out, then routes all nets together and lets the important ones keep their room. Decaps are joined to their pins first, buses run as bundles, tracks are 45° with pads entered at their centres.
  • DRC has the last word. At the end KiCad's DRC runs; any connection that would add an error (starved thermal reliefs included) is taken out and left for Claude to route by hand.
  • Closer to how a person routes. Vias can sit beside fine-pitch pins as the board's rules allow, every ground net with a pour (GND, GNDA, AGND…) is treated as a pour, the last pin of a fine-pitch row can leave sideways, and the GND plane layer is kept for short runs.
  • Small placement fixes while routing. When a connection has no way out, Claude may move a part by up to 2 mm or turn it 90°, and lists every such change in its reply and in the design review.
  • The installer now adds numba (pinned) for the router's search; without it the router still works, only slower.