On 10/6/06, Xiaofan Chen wrote: > On 10/5/06, Shawn Wilton 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. > > Between hating Eagle or hating Pads it's not such a big difference, maybe that hating an autorouter being able to route on 14 layers or more is better than one which is dying on two... Altium is not on my hating list, but I must add it. > 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. Yes, but Protel have a gerber wiever and a 3D designer for the PCB, which others does not have it... And Mentor's libraries must be bought... 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... If you need analogic simulation than maybe not on a PCB package ? greetings, Vasile -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist