Lpc2000

I do not have to many complaints about DXP or even the older Protel
99. I am a manual type of routing guy anyway. I like the problem
solving portion of laying out my own board and the finial out come. I
rarely use the auto-router, but when I do it's great. In terms of bugs
the only one that bothers me is the 3D view portion. In the 5 versions
I have of both Protel 99 and DXP, that has never worked very well or
just plain out crashed the system. In terms of support, I always have
great support from them.

The other reason I did the DXP upgrade was for the better auto-router,
but most of all for the Live design feature that allows you to build a
FPGA and test it via the debug station. They also say that they will
have a ARM plugin for that this coming year.

We use the Tasking 51 compiler.

Charles

--- In lpc2000@yahoogroups.com, "Leon Heller" <leon.heller@b...> wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "charlesgrenz" <charles.grenz@s...>
> To: <lpc2000@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 10:18 AM
> Subject: [lpc2000] Re: ANN: New version of Pulsonix PCB software
> 
> 
> > Your right Leon, it is cheaper. I bought Protel 99 for 4K at the time,
> > then they bought Tasking and changed to DXP, then DXP 2004. By the
> > time we upgraded we spent about 7K, but the full price for the total
> > package that we now have is +10K.
> >
> > I like the base price, but by the time I bought a couple of the other
> > modules to add on I am back to 10K again.
> 
> It's got advantages over Protel etc. It's *much* easier to use and
bugs get 
> fixed immediately, for instance.
> 
> Leon 
> 
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