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CAD tool summary in wiki #40

Closed jbqubit closed 4 years ago

jbqubit commented 4 years ago

@gkasprow @marmeladapk Please update the statement about CAD tools in the main wiki page to reflect the latest. 

Two main CAD tools are used for PCB design within Sinara: _Mentor Graphics Xpedition Enterprise_ and _Altium Designer_. Xpedition is preferred for more complex designs, such as the uTCA hardware. Altium is used for simpler designs, in particular those intended to be modifiable by the users (physicists). 

To allow easy sharing of dependencies between projects developed with the same CAD tools, projects are organised first by the CAD tool used, and then by the project hierarchy. Projects developed in Xpedition are stored in the ARTIQ_EE directory, while Altium projects are stored in the ARTIQ_ALTIUM directory.