AVR-Chat

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roy E. Burrage" <RBurrage@bellsouth.net>
To: "AVR-Chat Group" <AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2006 1:57 AM
Subject: [AVR-Chat] PC Board software


> Is anyone on this list using, or rather paying to be a beta tester for,
> AutoTrax EDA?
>
> I've been using CircuitMaker and TraxMaker for the past several years
> with no trouble to speak of but Altium (ProTel) has now bought the
> software and decided not to support it any longer a couple of years
> ago.  I'm investigating other packages that are load and go.  Autotrax
> seemed to be a very good buy but there seem to be an awful lot of users
> whose systems crash, boards go away when reloaded, and other problems
> indicative of serious problems.
>
> Eagle looks to be too much of a learning curve just from looking at the
> demo.
>
> Does anyone have other suggestions in the < $1,500.00 or so package
> range?  The CM/TM package can also do analog/digital/mixed signal
> simulations as well as auto routing, but I'm too much of a control freak
> to worry about auto routing too terribly much.

Easy-PC is very good, I used it for years. I now use Pulsonix, but it starts 
at about $2000. Both are very easy to use and support is excellent.

http://www.numberone.com

http://www.pulsonix.com

Leon
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