Homebrew PCBs

Hi Ted,

That doesn't seem very high.  I easily exceeded that in the little PIC
design I'm doing.  Connectors eat up a lot of pins I guess.  Digital
probably has more pins typically then analog.  I'm at maybe 350-400 now.
But then this is really my first PCB project (that I'm laying out) in a long
time. 

Sounds like a pin limit is fine for analog designs!

I'm not dedicated (hard wired?  Sorry!) to Eagle, I just knew about it to
try.  And I like the import/export capabilities.  I think I can write some
useful conversion programs to work with Eagle.  Just my thoughts.   

FB OM!

Alan  KM6VV


> Subject: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: freeware CAD EAGLE -> (Alan Marconett)
> 
> Not specifically directed to Stefan; just convenient to use his post
> for a general response :)
> 
> The free version of DipTrace has no limit on board size, but is
> "complexity limited" by a 250 pin maximum, which is fairly generous.
> I did a receiver IF system using all discrete components in Eagle,
> which pretty much filled the board, and the pin count was 215.
> DipTrace would be especially good for boards that need large foil
> traces, physical separation and have physically large components, such
> as power supplies with board mounted transformers and large
> computer-grade electrolytic caps.
> 
> Cheers,
> Ted  KX4OM
>