Why yes, I *did* have fun making this schematic symbol, why do you ask?

A new feature coming to the schematic editor in KiCad 9: rule areas, contributed by James Jackson. These allow you to do things like assign net classes to a number of nets at once (even if the nets are not themselves named)

Made a few small breakout boards with KiCAD:

Multi-track drifting, er, dragging coming to KiCad 9! Video and code courtesy of Tom W :)

Trying out Qucs-S layout export to Kicad with Qucs-RFlayout. Looks very promising.

3/7. To eliminate the effects of the fixture, one must somehow now the S-parameters of the fixture. I derived them by modeling the fixture and utilizing a simulator (Qucs) to obtain its S-parameters.

1/7. I did some experiments to de-embedding S-parameters to remove the effects of a test fixture using a Octave/Matlab script processing the raw measurement data. This script uses T-parameters to remove the effects of the fixture.

new devboard: 30% completed 😅

#KiCad 9 will have a native multichannel feature! (video by Tom W)