PCB packages spend too much effort on autorouters and they don’t work well.
Sorry, but better tools are available for things like simulation and FPGA design than with what’s bundled with all in one PCB design packages. In fact, I would guess that 90% of those designs could be done with a basic entry level tool so I decided to start there. It was apparent after I went through many of my previous projects that most of the designs I’ve done only use a small portion of the features that those packages offered.
I’ve used packages like PADS, OrCAD, and Altium Designer for a long time but they were out of my price range. How much should you spend on PCB design software? Is free really a good deal? I recently needed to find a package on a budget for my personal work so I set out to see what was available.
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