The router began as a port of FreeRouting and has grown its own engine
(negotiated congestion, tree nets, exact checks, axis escapes), and
'freeroute' was one letter from the project it no longer follows. The
package, module and command are now rpmroute; the freeroute command stays
as an alias, and the RPMROUTE / RPMROUTE_ORACLE_JAVA variables fall back
to the old FREEROUTE names. Version 2026.10.07. Routing is unchanged: a
PCBench board routes to a byte-identical session either way.
A QFN placed at 45 degrees had no exit on the grid: every horizontal or
vertical step from a pin passes its neighbours inside clearance. A pin whose
pad is turned more than ten degrees off the grid axes now leaves along the
pad's own axis, away from the part, until an L from there to a grid cell
clears every other net's pad, then searches as usual. The slanted leg is
checked and stored as an exact slab (segment_slab), not its bounding box,
in the grid stub checks and in the exact engine.
Where pins leave side by side, a cell names only its first owner, so stubs
are also indexed per cell for every connection near them; the exact
stub-vs-stub check, trace entry and rip-up all consult that index. A pin
with an axis exit and no clear cell reports no way out instead of falling
back to a cell on another net's route. diagnose.py replays with the exits.
rsp2k