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| techsupport@acceltech.com | Technical support |
| info@tech5.nl | Dealer for the Benelux |
| www.acceltech.com/ | General |
Accel has two PCB design programs, PCAD Master Designer and Accel EDA. PCAD is for DOS and Unix, EDA is for Windows. Both from schematics until auto routing. Both unfortunately a little to expensive for home usage. (They are at it for at least 10 years now).
See also:
| local | About their PCAD mailing list |
| local | About their EDA mailing list |
| www.acc-eda.com/ |
VHDL tools
History:
| 1988 | Founded as the software division of CAD Solutions. |
| 1995 | Bought by the employees. |
| 1998 | Bought by PADS Software. |
| 200009 | PADS Software bought by Innoveda. |
| www.ecam.com/ | ACT |
| Agilent | The company as a whole |
| CAD Data Store | It's EDA software shop |
| www.advancedmsinc.com/ | main page |
| www.advancedmsinc.com/cad_page.htm | CAD Page |
| www.advancedmsinc.com/pcbkit/ | CircuitCREATOR: Schematic and PCB Design |
| www.advancedmsinc.com/spice/ | SpiceCreator: Simulator |
| www.ansoft.com/ |
| www.autodesk.com/ |
| www.avista.com/ |
Product: SpiceLink
| www.bartels.de/ | General |
| www.mahle.de/ | Distributor since 1987 |
Products: AutoEngineer and AutoRouter
CAD package for PCB design. I did not test it, Gunther Mannigel.
| www.cadaes.com/ |
| www.caddatastore.com/ | General (linked to Agilent's site now) |
| www.agilent.com/caddatastore/cds_home.html | About the closure of the store |
| Agilent | Mother company (in the Chipdir) |
| www.agilent.com/ | Mother company (directly) |
| www.cadence.com/ |
| ftp.cadence.com/ |
| www.cadsoft.de/ |
| www.cadsoftusa.com/ |
| www.cadsoft.com/ |
| www.capilano.com/ |
Product: DesignWorks
| info@zipc.com | info |
| support@zipic.com | support |
| john_zipc@hotmail.com | to contact management |
| www.zipc.com/ |
| www.edaXchange.com/ |
| www.cctech.com/ |
Spectra Autorouter (Interfaces for several PCB layout programs).
It's one of the best.
| www.csieda.com/ |
| www.csi.co.kr/ |
| WinSchematic | Schematic capture tool |
| WinPCB | Analog and digital PCB layout design tool |
| WinRoute | Autorouting tool |
| WinSpice | Circuit Simulator |
| Win3DView | 3D Analysis tool for PCB |
Click on the entries for more information.
History of CUPL:
| 1985 | Created by PCAD/Assisted Tech. |
| 1980 | Purchased by David Mot of Logical Devices (now or Forchip). |
| 200101 | Sold to Protel of Australia |
| www.rexfisher.com/Downloads/CUPL%20Tutorial.htm | CUPL tutorial |
| www.pionix.co.kr/ldi/cupl.htm | overview of CUPL products |
For more information on CUPL history or other related information
please email us at info@forchip.com.
Source of this information:
| www.forchip.com/ |
| www.tina.com/ |
| www.designsoftware.com/ |
| www.deutsch.com/ |
SPICE
| www.douglas.com/ |
Developers of Mac-based PCB solutions
| www.cadsoft.de/ |
Also see CadSoft.
| www.ecam.com/ |
They seem to have a Gerber viewer call Cam350.
| www.edac.org/ | home page |
| www.edac.org/EDAC/Members.html | member list |
| www.EDAC.org/EngDataXpress |
Products and services supporting EDIF
| www.ultiboard.com/ | Main product |
| www.electronicsworkbench.com/ | About company |
| www.ultiboard.com/s.html | Technical data |
| www.ultiboard.com/d.html | Distributors/Rep's |
| www.ultiboard.com/demo1.html | Order CD-ROM's |
Marketleader in EDA tools since 1990 one of the largest providers of EDA
products in the world with over 130,000 total users.
Products:
| Multisim | Spice mixed mode A/D simulation, RF design, logic syntheses, VHDL and Verilog |
| Ulticap | Schematic capture |
| Ultiboard | PCB design |
| Ultiroute | GT auto-placement and auto-routing |
Worldwide distributor:
| www.ezroute2000.com/ |
| www.graphicode.com/ |
| www.geda.seul.org/ |
The gEDA project is working on producing a full GPL'd suite of Electronic Design Automation tools.
| www.gered.com/ |
| www.gered.com/ |
Considerable design time is spent in building
different sized nands, nors, inverters, complex, etc. JOSHUA can
automatically build these devices LVS and DRC clean individually or in
groups in just minutes! Design rules can be easily manipulated with
Gereds user friendly non-programmable Technology File. JOSHUAs STRIP GEN
can automatically design and place numerous devices of all types in the
order that they were inputted leaving only routing left to do! JOSHUAs
Technology file options include diffusion sharing, wells, boundaries,
straight and 90% legs, and much more!
JOSHUA is a PC-based tool in which output can be streamed to virtually any
PC-based or UNIX based system through a GDSII file. Version 1.0 is
compatible with WINDOWS 95 and NT.
Loading this program does not commit you to any purchase. This DEMO
VERSION will allow you to produce devices that you can examine through
JOSHUAs viewer. The full working version is necessary to create an output
stream file. If you would like to purchase the full version,
call 1-888-437-3311 to purchase a security dongil (key) to produce a full
working version.
| www.gered.com/ |
| www.holophase.com/ |
| www.ibfriedrich.com/ | General |
| www.icadsys.com/ |
Innoveda, Inc.
293 Boston Post Road West
Marlborough MA 01752
USA
tel: +1-508-480-0881
tel: +1-800-873-8439
fax: +1-508-480-0882
askus@innoveda.com
| www.innoveda.com/ | General |
| www.pads.com/ | WWW site of PADS |
| www.ecam.com/ | WWW site of ACT |
| www.ecam.de/c350links.html | Info at Mahle (in German) |
Innoveda is the leading provider of Electronic Design Automation (EDA) software and services that enhance and accelerate the design and building of advanced electronic products. Unlike traditional EDA software providers, Innoveda offers a broad range of solutions focused on systems design, starting from the earliest stages of design definition straight through bare board fabrication. By supplying you with state-of-the-art, integrated solutions, Innoved eliminates critical obstacles from your electronic system design process - guiding you quickly and successfully through to volume production.
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- Having built a user community that far exceeds 100,000 installations, Innoveda
has gained experience and understanding about our customer's needs. Innoveda
is dedicated and focused on meeting these evolving needs, and responding
quickly to them. Customers include companies in the telecommunications,
automotive, aerospace, computer, and consumer electronic industries.
Having built a user community that far exceeds 100,000 installations, Innoveda
has gained experience and understanding about our customer's needs. Innoveda
is dedicated and focused on meeting these evolving needs, and responding
quickly to them. Customers include companies in the telecommunications,
automotive, aerospace, computer, and consumer electronic industries.
Products are amongst many others:
| www.insightdev.com/ |
| www.insightdev.com/squiggle.html |
| www.veribest.com/ |
| www.islandlogix.com/ | General |
| www.ivex.com/ |
IVEX's Windraft and Winboard: Free for 100 pins, autorouting costs extra.
| www.autotraxEDA.com/ |
| www.logitronics.net/ | General |
| www.logitronics.net/page2.html | Technical data |
| www.logitronics.net/page7.html | Order Datasheets/books |
| www.logitronics.net/page9.html | Order CD-ROM's |
German distributor of Bartels and ACT.
| www.mentala.com/ |
Products:
| www.mentorg.com/ | home page |
| supportnetweb.mentorg.com/ | support network |
| supportnet.mentorg.com/pub/ | support network ftp server |
| www.erc.msstate.edu/mug/ | Mentor User Group |
| www.geocities.com/MerliPCB/ |
| www.microcode.com/ |
| www.orcad.com/ | General |
| www.orcad.com/products/cddemo.htm | About demo CD-ROM |
| www.orcad.com/asp/form/survey.htm | Order demo CD-ROM |
| www.crl.com/~pacnum/pnc.html |
PADS Software, Inc.
| www.pads.com | Links to the Innoveda site |
| www.pcb123.com/?source=chipdir |
| www.protel.com/ | General |
| www.rsi-inc.com/ |
| www.simucad.com/ |
Logic Simulation EDA software
| local | An announcement email about it |
| www.avista.com/SpiceLink | At Avista |
| www.syncad.com/ |
Timing diagram drawing and analysis.
| www.tanner.com/eda/ |
| ftp.tanner.com/ |
A developer and supplier of affordable, easy to use, yet powerful PC based design tools for IC, MCM and MEMS* applications. Tanner EDA offers a full range of design solutions including schematic entry, simulation, layout and verification. Training classes, custom library creation and analog/digital design consulting is also available.
| www.twolf.com/ |
| www.ultiboard.com/ |
| www.viewlogic.com/ |
| www.islandlogix.com/ | Includes VisualSpice, VisualPCB, autorouter and viewer |
$150+150
See Jameco.
3D Analyzer for MS Windows 95/NT
3D display feature based on powerful OpenGL graphic engine
Updation PCB layout interconnected with WinPCB
Support 3D Library (not silkscreen elevation)
Rotation, Zooming in and out library
Creation of ASCII and/or binary file type
3D display by choosing one among PCB components
Support user-defined 3D library using 3D Library Generator
Creation of 3D library for other PCB CAD files
PCB Layout Editor for MS Windows 95/NT
Support auto placement and matrix/circle placement features
Support powerful shape-based auto router
Capability of drawing slope pattern
Capability of drawing free-style circular pattern
Creation of tear drop
Support copper and copper pour
Support auto power plane
Drawing PCB layout using Board Builder
Support real-time DRC
Support Gerber edit
Panelization of PCB Gerber
256 layers available
Support auto jumper for analog design
Compatible with PADS/CADSTAR/P-CAD job data
Screen display with high speed using Dynamic Zoom and Scroll feature
Schematic Capture for MS Windows 95/NT
Hierarchical management using Project feature
Libary management using Library Manager
Screen display with high speed using Dynamic Zoom and Scroll feature
Connection and exchange with OA softwares such as MS Word, MS Excel
Support Windows Metafiles(WMF)
ERC feature using Error Debugger
Support various netlist format
Extraction of circuit analysis data for PSpice
Dynamic Link connected to WinPCB without netlist
Compatible with OrCAD library (except for Windows version)
Wintek Corporation
| www.wintek.com/ |
product: HiWire II
type: PCB/SCH/Autorouter CAD software
Comment by Erik Margan <erik.margan@ijs.si>:
WOW:
In the last 18 years I have tried more than 20 major brands of PCB CAD software,
following nearly all updated versions, but none was so easy to work with.
Date: 19971110 From: Radhakrishnan To: Multiple recipients of list CHIPDIR-L Subject: pcb router
I want to buy a very good pcb routing tool. I have got orcads
front end tool for schematic entry and placement(PCB386+).
I am looking for router that can now do the routing as the
orcad router has not met my expectations.
K. Radhakrishnan,
Senior design executive,
Cg-coreEl logic systems, Pune, India
Date: 19971110 From: Tinco Brouwer To: Multiple recipients of list CHIPDIR-L Subject: Re: pcb router
There are many pcb routing tools. If they are good or bad for your work is
difficult to say. It depends on what you need to route (single, dual, or
multilayer; size; smt/through hole; emc; groundplanes; forward/backward
annotation, design rules check etc.). And it depends on how much money you
want to spend. And it also matters if it has to be a windows program, unix,
dos or other environments.
We are happy with our PCAD MD8.6 but others may have different opinions.
PCAD MD8.6 with a shapetech router is not too bad but it will be expensive.
The famous chipdirectory has a page with some pcb routing tools. Look on the
homepage for Manufacturers and follow the link to CAD programs.
The Institute for Interconnecting and Packaging Electronic Circuits (IPC) is
a trade association representing over 2200 companies in the electronic
interconnection industry worldwide. If you follow the design link from their
homepage you will find info about email forums about pcb layout, links to
many suppliers of layout software and more. On their email forum (they have
also an archive on the web) you can get lots of info.
www.ipc.org/
Regards,
Tinco Brouwer, Afdeling Elektronica, Faculteit der Biologie, Vrije Universiteit
| www.bio.vu.nl/faculteit/elektronica/ |
Date: 19971110 From: Kerry Berland Organization: Fat City Network Services, San Diego, California To: Multiple recipients of list CHIPDIR-L Subject: Re: pcb router
Try Protel.
| www.protel.com/ |
Date: 19971110 From: Amer Alshawa Organization: Fat City Network Services, San Diego, California To: Multiple recipients of list CHIPDIR-L Subject: RE: pcb router
Use eagle! it is good from CadSoft
Date: 19971110 From: MCROLNK To: Multiple recipients of list CHIPDIR-L Subject: Re: pcb router
We use POWERPCB from PADS with the Spectra Autorouter and always are
able to 100% complete the design.
Regards
Paul Humphreys
Date: 19971110 From: David Timmins To: Multiple recipients of list CHIPDIR-L Subject: RE: pcb router
We use Protel, which I think can talk to OrCad. Look at www.protel.com.au/
Date: 19971110 From: Keith B. To: Multiple recipients of list CHIPDIR-L Subject: Re: pcb router
I use the PADS PowerPCB with the autospectra router and Viewlogic's
Viewdraw for schematic capture.
I have also used Orcad's capture and layout programs and found them to be
non intuitive. It seems you have to do everything backwards to what you
would expect.
Orcad is pretty much has a set price for their packages where with PADS you
can get what you need.
I like the PADS best!!!
Keith Bellows
Date: 19971110 From: Steve Baldwin To: Multiple recipients of list CHIPDIR-L Subject: Re: pcb router
Several people have mentioned their favourite CAD packages here already.
The Specctra router is the tool you really want for autorouting. IMHO,
products like PADS, Protel, Ultiboard, or whatever, are merely a means to
create the parts and get the design into Specctra.
I have used all of those products over the years and each have their good
and not so good points. I don't think it is reasonable to say that X is
better than Y. Only that I am more familiar with X or that X is missing a
feature that I used a lot with Y.
I've tried many of the autorouters that have been offered, too. Again, some
perform quite well under particular circumstances, but no board designer
really expects to have all the work done for them.
The Specctra though, really is in a league of its own. You can throw a
board at it,straight out of the box and it will both succeed and do a
reasonable job. You then have the ability to control it by putting rules on
to nets, regions, components, layers, etc. The rules are in the form of a
programming language and that gives you the ability to tell the router what
you can see and it can't. You can have the rules change as the routing
progresses. The flexibility is excellent. This software was obviously
written by people who have done a lot of PCB design themselves. It really
shows.
Not suprisingly, it isn't cheap. If that doesn't deter you, they have an
auto-placement that actually works too. Then there is DFM, semi-manual
routing, route rules based on crosstalk, impedance, etc. The list goes on
(well beyond my budget).
I'm not associated with them in any way, other than being a very satisfied user.
Steve
Date: 19971111 From: Dirk Stieler To: Multiple recipients of list CHIPDIR-L Subject: Re: pcb router
Kerry Berland:
Try Protel.
We use their systems for schematic capture and PCB layout.
www.protel.com/
I also use the Protel schematic and PCB system.
It's o.k., but the autorouter is not very good, I think.
Paul Humphreys:
We use POWERPCB from PADS with the Spectra Autorouter and always are able to 100% complete the design.
That's right, the Specctra-Router is really great. It's possible to export
the PCB from Protel to Specctra, and the result is always good!
Regards
Dirk
Date: 19971111 From: Jan Zumwalt To: Multiple recipients of list CHIPDIR-L Subject: Re: pcb router
I use Circuit Maker which has Trax Maker incorporated into it (MicroCode
Engineering). I believe it is probably about the best for under $600. I
would not recommend it to someone working all day but for someone such as
myself where I may cut a PCB about every week or so it is just right.
They supply a demo at on their site (Sorry I don't have a URL handy).
Date: 19971111 From: bobsmith@i2020.net To: Multiple recipients of list CHIPDIR-L Subject: Re: pcb router
I have found the autorouter module in the Eagle PCB package by
CadSoft to do a surprisingly good job for a low-cost PCB CAD tool.
Try www.cadsoftusa.com/ or info@cadsoftusa.com
The whole package (schematic capture, board editor, autorouter)
goes for about US$1200.00 and does amazingly good work for the price.
Bob Smith
| bach.ece.jhu.edu/~tim/programs/xcircuit/ | Xcircuit, a free Unix/Linux circuit drawing program |
| bach.ece.jhu.edu/~haceaton/pcb/ | PCB, a free Unix/Linux Printed Circuit CAD program |
| lwn.net/2000/features/xcircuit/ | LWN Review of Xcircuit |
| lwn.net/2000/features/pcb/ | LWN Review of PCB |
| www.geda.seul.org/ | gEDA GPL Electronic Design Automation |
| local | In the ABC |
| local | In the ABC |
| local | In the ABC |
| www.protel.com/library/ | Protel libraries developed by the Altium Library Development Center. The component search doesn't seem to work lately (at 20020221). |
| www.technicalcomputing.com/EDATools/ | Expanded Design Tools section by design category, including tools, vendors, and recommended reading |
| www.dacafe.com/cgi-bin/dnewsweb | The DACafe News Gateway - a web portal to EDA newsgroups and more. |
| www.ibsystems.com/DACafe/EDATools/EDAbooks/EDAbooks.html | Complete EDA engineering books on-line |
| www.eedesign.com/ | From the EDTN Network |
| deepchip.com/ | From the EDTN Network |
| www.industrycommunity.com/myforum/jw_childers/ | Printed Circuit Designers' Forum |
| www.dacafe.com/ | EDAtoolsCafe' - Your Complete EDA and IC Resource |
Other sites with a database of products and their manufacturers
| www.circuitworld.com/ | Circuit World |
| www.et-info.com/textsuch.htm | ET-Info (in German) |
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