On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 08:00:43PM -0700, Ray Heasman wrote:
> 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.
Hmmm. Can you enter a schematic and parts libraries in Eagle, then
pass it to PADS PCB for board layout? Most of the PCB design bureaus around
here use PADS; some use Cadence Allegro.
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