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Opening TI reference designs on KiCAD?

Savinda Gunawardena
Intellectual 965 points
Other Parts Discussed in Thread: CC1190, CC1310

Hi, I have been trying to open the TI CC1190 reference design project on KiCAD (so that I can simply copy over the antenna design to my project)- however, I can't really open the board files using Eagle or KiCAD. Do I have to buy Altium/ Cadence to actually use these reference designs? I'd be really helpful if there was a converter I could use.

Kind regards,

Savinda

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    TI__Guru** 106705 points
    Hi Savinda,

    I am not sure exactly which reference design you are referring to, but depending on when it was designed it is either made in Zuken Cadstar or Cadence.

    As far as I know, there are no good way to copy designs from one CAD tool to another.

    Cheers,
    Fredrik
  • 0 in reply to Fredrik K
    Intellectual 965 points
    Thanks for your reply, Fredrik. Could you please also tell me whether it was Cadence Allegro or Cadence OrCad that was used for the reference design or could I use either to open them?
    I would like to use the existing TI antenna designs for my own PCB with a CC1310 and possibly a CC1190. My problem is that right now I don't have a reliable way of copying these designs onto KiCAD. Since I've got little prior experience designing high frequency PCBs and no experience with antenna design, I don't know how I'd be able to match an antenna for operation in the 915MHz band (902-928) without copying over the TI board files.

    Is trying to copy the antenna and matching section dimensions by looking at the PDF files reliable enough?

    Thanks again for your assistance.