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Notes on AI PCB design, KiCad, benchmarks and what we are shipping. Short, dated, and only what we have measured.
Six autorouters, eight boards, one referee
The October 2026 benchmark run: Koppar, Freerouting, tscircuit, KiCad Routing Tools, TraceMaker and Zap! on eight open-hardware KiCad boards, scored by KiCad. Koppar fully routed all eight with zero DRC errors added. What the numbers say, and what they do not.
Hello from Koppar
Koppar turns a plain-English description into a KiCad schematic, a placed and routed board, a priced bill of materials and Gerbers. This is where we will write about it.