On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 22:38 -0400, Jack Carroll wrote: > OK. Now I understand what you're talking about. It's a > hierarchical schematic entry program. My new employer has me learning a > package called Orcad Capture. I've been through the manual once, and I'm > starting to practice with it. Unfortunately, it's expensive, runs only on > MS, and depends on a dongle. So I can't practice with it at home. > The closest thing I've heard of that runs on Linux is Eagle. It's > not open source, but as far as I know it's affordable. There's also the > gEDA project; I haven't looked in on it lately, so I don't know how far > along it is. But if you're really stuck and need to hack something, that > might be a lot closer to what you want than a clean sheet of paper.
I have used Eagle to design and lay out a reasonably complex FPGA-based design. I can recommend it. The support folks are efficient too, and could answer my questions off the cuff. Orcad is a bug ridden nightmare. Eagle may not have as many features, but on the whole I have been impressed with its stability and robustness. Orcad is also way more expensive than Eagle. Cheers, Ray _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
