41 lines
1.9 KiB
Markdown
41 lines
1.9 KiB
Markdown
Results are unchanged from 1.2.1 for the same board and settings. This
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release is about what the plugin tells you while it works, and about no
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longer overstating what a frequency result means.
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Progress while solving:
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- The dialog used to close on OK and leave nothing on screen until the
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figures appeared - minutes, on a real board, with no sign the plugin
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was doing anything. A small window now stays up for that whole
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stretch: the stage running, elapsed seconds, and Cancel.
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- It covers the figure work as well as the solve. Laying out labels and
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writing the four PNGs at full resolution is seconds on a modest board
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and 10-15 on a large one, and that used to be silent too.
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- Cancel stops the solve and returns you to the board with no error
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figure - the run simply reports that it was cancelled.
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Frequency results are described honestly:
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- Nothing advertises "AC resistance" any more. At f > 0 the plugin
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applies the exact 1D foil and barrel skin-effect correction and
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nothing else: proximity redistribution and inductance are not
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modelled, so the number is a lower bound on the resistive rise, not
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an AC impedance simulation. The README headline, the PCM and plugin
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descriptions, the dialog note, the CLI help and the summary line all
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say so now.
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- The computation itself has not changed - only its description. A
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frequency result from 1.2.1 is the same number, previously labelled
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in a way that invited it to be read as an impedance.
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Also in this release:
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- The offline runner takes --progress, so the same busy window can be
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used outside KiCad.
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- The frequency field keeps its specific reason for rejecting an input
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("1,500" is a thousands separator, "-5" is negative) instead of a
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generic "cannot parse".
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The in-KiCad |J| overlay push remains experimental and opt-in, off by
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default. It writes reference images to User.9-User.12 and replaces what
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is on those layers.
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