I'm still working on my SBC, and I was trying to figure out a good way to make the whole circuit on a single-sided board, but now I might have to use double sided board.
However, I still have the following restrictions.
1. all holes need to be filled in. This means the holes that make the via's must not be left open. I do have jumper blocks which function like 5 dip switches all turned in the ON position that I can use as 5 wire jumpers in series.
2. I must be able to solder the via as an amateur would do it. In other words, I want to avoid taking my board into a professional shop, and do the whole thing myself.
Given that, all I need is a way to construct my board in software so that the via's are pre-defined, and the board is auto-routed.
I am using Eagle. Because it can accept code, I was wondering if anyone can tell me how I can define specific via points. On a 2-sided board, Eagle normally defines vias at random locations which is no good to me.
If there is software better than Eagle that I can use, let me know. Thanks.
However, I still have the following restrictions.
1. all holes need to be filled in. This means the holes that make the via's must not be left open. I do have jumper blocks which function like 5 dip switches all turned in the ON position that I can use as 5 wire jumpers in series.
2. I must be able to solder the via as an amateur would do it. In other words, I want to avoid taking my board into a professional shop, and do the whole thing myself.
Given that, all I need is a way to construct my board in software so that the via's are pre-defined, and the board is auto-routed.
I am using Eagle. Because it can accept code, I was wondering if anyone can tell me how I can define specific via points. On a 2-sided board, Eagle normally defines vias at random locations which is no good to me.
If there is software better than Eagle that I can use, let me know. Thanks.