On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 00:16 -0400, Jack Carroll wrote: > 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?
Eagle also has the capability to do board layout, so you can go straight to Gerber files. It has its own libraries, and facilities for making your own. I have made my own schematic parts and footprints for the devices I was using, as I needed them. It was annoying, but at least I only had to do it once. I have never tried to export to PADS. I don't know what capabilities Eagle has in that department. It has some very powerful scripting capabilities. If it can't do it, then something could be knocked together if required, I guess. 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)
