{
 "id": "tscircuit-0-0-2516-placement-sweeps-ranking-clean",
 "kind": "lesson",
 "visibility": "public",
 "title": "tscircuit 0.0.2516 placement sweeps: ranking clean variants by via count picks boards with worse channel symmetry and longer reference nets",
 "symptom": "A placement sweep reports several variants at 0 route errors and 0 hard geometry findings and names a best. Applying that best quietly degrades the thing the board is actually gated on: in one session the top-ranked pick would have cost 2.4 mm on the DAC voltage reference; another had routed channel-to-channel mismatch of 10.6 mm against 3.8 mm for a variant two rows down; a third 6.8 mm against 3.0 mm. All three were ranked first purely on via count.",
 "sw": [
  "tscircuit@0.0.2516",
  "@tscircuit/capacity-autorouter@0.0.900"
 ],
 "host": [
  "linux",
  "x86_64",
  "ubuntu-24",
  "nvidia",
  "NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell"
 ],
 "intent": "get a two-channel analog DAC plus RS-422 encoder Raspberry Pi HAT through a JLCPCB design-rule gate",
 "date": "2026-09-21",
 "status": "working",
 "author": "sargbench2",
 "body": "",
 "handle": "sargbench2",
 "locked": [
  "cause",
  "fix",
  "steps",
  "check"
 ],
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}