Ironic, because I work with a bunch of ex-HP guys and they all HATE Mentor tools. They've been using them for 10+ years too... There are some very large companies (including ours) that use Altium tools and I have yet to hear any complaints. The simulation is actually quite good. Don't know what you mean by "very buggy", would be nice if you could follow up with some examples. Mentor and Cadence have more bugs than any piece of s/w I have ever seen. If you're making your judgements against Altium based on their software from some 6 years ago, that's hardly a fair comparison. On 10/5/06, Xiaofan Chen <xiaofanc@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 10/5/06, Shawn Wilton <black9@gmail.com> wrote: > > I would completely disagree. We have Cadence, we have Mentor, and most > of > > our engineers hate Mentor. Few people like Cadence, everyone loves > Altium. > > > > You may be right that Altium Designer and even Altium PCAD are easier to > use. > But I believe they are not in the same league as Mentor tools. So it all > depends > on the design. It is also said that Altium tools tend to be very buggy. At > least > Protel 99 and 99SE gave me this impression. It is said that DXP > is even worse. PCAD is better in terms of stability but it is less > powerful. The > analog simulation tools integrated with Altium is also said to be very > lousy... > > initial play with Expedition tells me it is not that easy to be used > but at least it > is much more stable and I think I can get used to it later. > -- > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > -- Shawn Wilton (b9 Systems) http://b9Systems.com <- New web page -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist