@paulcjh: My autorouter works! This board completes in around 1 min, and manages to implement the required routing on just 2 laye…
Summary
An autorouter tool efficiently routes a PCB board in 1 minute on 2 layers, outperforming Freerouting and matching DeepPCB benchmarks with reduced vias.
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