>
> My personal favorite by far is Protel (their full-featured commercial
> package, not the easy-trax freeware).  Unfortunately, it doesn't come
> cheap (about $5K USD).  But to be fair, you do get a lot for that (very
> capable schematic capture, excellent PCB layout with good autorouting
> capability, signal integrity analysis, analog/digital simulation, and PLD
> design).  It's just awesome.

I use Protel as well.
My only real complaint is the bloody interface keeps changing..!!!!!
with each new version. You just become slick at operating it when the
next version bears only a faint resemblance to the previous.
The documentation is like Microsofts... copious in quantity but next
to useless... I find one has to work it out for ones self.. often
turning out to be quite easy but unlike the previous version and the
help only leads you off into the weeds.
All whining aside... it works well and they had the intelligence to
drop the parallel port dongle.
That $US 5K price?.. I know we get a edu discount but Protel 98 cost
us $NZ1000 ($US520) for the full version???? I could have been sure
the standard price was less than $US1000.
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Lance Allen
Technical Officer
Uni of Auckland
Psych Dept
New Zealand
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