Re: 320pin BGA Pin Layout suggestions

On Mar 21, 1:03 pm, Hawker
<Hawker{removethispa...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
OrCAD was very unstable until Windows Version 9.x. 7.x was horrible in
so many ways.
It still has issues with shorts when you move parts, net renaming and
attributes but is sorta usable.
Unfortunately it is what many engineers learn so I am forced to often
use it since my clients use it.
I do most of my layout work with PADS PCB. I prefer to use PADS Logic
for the front end but will use OrCAD if they request. I charge extra for
OrCAD because of the issues.

Hawker
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On 3/20/2007 9:25 PM, The digits of Brian's hands composed the following:



On Mar 20, 8:19 pm, krw <k...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <pan.2007.03.21.00.26.06.654...@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
r...@xxxxxxxxxxx says...

On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 15:14:40 -0700, Brian wrote:
... What a fool. Probably maintains a DOS machine
to use his CAD program.
Hey, don't knock DOS - There are people who use it on purpose, because
it's more reliable than Windoze. ;-)
I know people who, at least until recently, used OrCad on DOS because
they thought the 'doze version was so awful. I never had a lot of
problems with 9.x, but...

--
Keith

Orcad was ALWAYS awful. I used the DOS verson sometime in the early
90's, I could not stand it. Other than terrible bugs (can you really
say that though?), I liked the later versions better. I bet I still
have a copy of th DOS manuals around here somewhere though.

Today, if I hated Windows that bad, I certainly would rather move to
linux than keep DOS around.

P.S. - Eagle sucks :)- Hide quoted text -

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PADS is my favorite, too. The on the fly autorip-up for rerouted
traces is glaringly absent in other packages. I liked Veribest, and
some of those features are now in PADS since they were "absorbed".

I still get LOTS of Eagle garbage. Hate that program. And just had in
a WinQCad job of all dang things! Can't believe people choose to use
that crud.

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