Tag: CAD

Easy BGA PCB footprints generation with AutoBGA

I have just recently finished work on version 1.2 of an open-source tool called AutoBGA. AutoBGA is a program that takes images of ball grid arrays (BGAs) from datasheets to automatically construct a PCB footprint of the package. The generation of such footprints is usually a tedious and error-prone process because of the large number […]

Java2D under SWT: coercing Graphics2D functionality into SWT

Context (or skip to solution 🙂 ) I am currently working on a medium-scale personal project in Electronics Design Automation. I am usually very keen on building scripts and programs to make board-level design tasks faster for me and others. This time around, I am designing a Package Generator program to generate footprints for different […]