Use Eagle tool!!! was: Would you be interested...?

Anyone mention this one yet?
It rocks, and for the price...well...it ROCKS!
check it out:

http://www.cadsoftusa.com/

-anders.

At 03:00 PM 6/26/00 -0700, you wrote:
>>Clay, as far as the autorouter setup, I only use it on larger boards with
>>lots of logic and little analog. Once you read the book, set and save the
>>autorouter settings, you can recall the settings and re-use them, so setup
>>is a cinch. If the autorouter is set well, it looks almost like I layed it
>>out by hand. I always go back and touch up the layout afterwards anyway.
>
>Cool. It's entirely possible that PADS is significantly better than OrCAD
>Layout Plus too. OrCAD has really high completion success when I use it,
>but it makes a real freaking rats-nest in the process.
>
>Actually, I bet 99% of the problem is that I only give it two layers to
>work in. It has real problems cleanly routing busses and power
>distribution-- in order to get good power distribution I can give higher
>priority to the power nets, but then it really hoses up all the routing
>channels left on the board for everything else. Letting it do everything
>*before* power results in really crappy power routing. If it had a power
>and ground plane to work with it'd probably do much better. (All the
>examples are at least 4 layers I see...)
>
>We actually hand-route everything we do for work. We're always trying to
>get by with the bare minimum number of layers, and without any shielding
>to save weight/cost/space. The layout guys and hardware engineers are
>pretty incredible here though-- our Rio 600 is a 75MHz ARM, five different
>clocks/crystals, a multi-100KHz switching power supply, a 200V EL
>backlight generator, and lots of ports for noise to get out(USB, serial,
>audio, power), and it *still* passes FCC Part 15 by several dB with 4
>layers and a plastic case (no spray or shielding!).
>
>(Sorry if this is drifting a little off topic, things have been so quiet
>here lately I hope it doesn't matter. Neil can yell at us if we're being
>annoying. ;-)
>
>-Clay
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