Transform Altium DRC rules into KiCad DRC rules

[mikwielgus]

Outline

The Altium importer lacks import of DRC rules. There is a powerful query language defined in Altium, which has to be transformed to KiCad compatible DRC rules.

The task is to write an parser of Altium DRC rules in PEGTL, a header-only C++ template library, and then transform the rules into semantically equivalent KiCad DRC rules.

Details

• Map out Altium DRC rules and the semantically equivalent rules in KiCad
• Write a parser for Altium DRC rules in PEGTL
• Write a transformer which converts the input into KiCad compatible DRC rules
• Write QA tests for the parser and transformer

Expected Outcome

Altium importer supports import of DRC rules.

Project Properties

Skills

• C++
• Parser generators
• Basic knowledge of EDA software concepts

Difficulty

Medium

Size

175 hours

Additional Information

• Potential mentors:
  • Thomas Pointhuber
• Organization website: https://kicad.org
• Communication channels:
  • gsoc@kicad.org
  • Discord channel