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  • tverbeure5 hours ago
    This is really impressive and I love how it came into existence out of necessity.<p>Could you share the application that you&#x27;re using this backplane for? Is it a (very expensive) hobby project or a real world use case? You don&#x27;t often see projects with a 12 layer PCB where the routing isn&#x27;t critical in terms of reflection.
    • wanderingjew5 hours ago
      It&#x27;s for a 4096-node cluster arranged in a 12-bit hamming-distance 1 graph. If you know what I&#x27;m talking about please don&#x27;t spoil it for the others.<p>Yeah, it&#x27;s a very expensive hobby project, but I can see some applications for similar pathological backplanes and BGA escape routing. Of course it doesn&#x27;t do impedance control, length matching or differential pairs, but this could be useful on a _very small subset_ of _very complex boards_.<p>Basically I accidently stumbled into one of the hardest routing problems I&#x27;ve ever seen, and decided to build an autorouter. And that might be useful for other people.
      • tverbeure5 hours ago
        &gt; If you know what I&#x27;m talking about please don&#x27;t spoil it for the others.<p>I didn&#x27;t, but now I&#x27;m intrigued and googling for cues. :-)
  • all25 hours ago
    By _the_ Brian Benchoff? Of Hackaday fame? Pretty cool I&#x27;ll have to give this a shot.
    • wanderingjew5 hours ago
      &quot;fame&quot;
      • all25 hours ago
        My man, your articles were the mainstay of my internet reading for the better part of a decade. Suffice to say that you are part of why I&#x27;m an engineer. Thank you for that, at least.