John, Mentor Graphics provides schematic and board level translators
www.mentor.com/products/pcb/pads/translators Altrium does as well and did about 55 million in sales last year. https://wiki.altium.com/display/ADOH/Moving+to+Altium+Designer+From +OrCAD Steve Meier On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 13:53 -0700, John Doty wrote: > On Jan 30, 2009, at 12:23 PM, Steve Meier wrote: > > > > >>>> > >>>> When Jobs and Wozniak were tinkering in that garage, the dominant > >>>> computer hardware was System/370. They were wise not to try to > >>>> compete with that. > >>> > >>> jobs and woz used a disruptive technology (the integrated > >>> circuit) to > >>> compete with the bigger hardware. > >> > >> And FOSS is disruptive technology, for sure. > > > > > > FOSS is a disruptive technology when you have a large number of > > developers, Each working part time or being payed from their job. This > > isn't the case with geda. > > Well, I don't know. gEDA is certainly empowering me in a pretty > radical way. But of course, you always have to use the strength of > the tool, not fight against it. > > > > > > >> > >>> > >>> geda and pcb lag far behind in interoperability with other layout > >>> programs and with vendor support for capabilities such as > >>> programming > >>> their flying probe testers. > >> > >> I've never used pcb, so I can't comment. But gEDA is a great front > >> end to every layout flow I've encountered. > >> > >>> > > > > I agree the geda works as a front end tool. > > Better than anything else around, I think. That's a major strength we > should build upon. > > > But you can't take a geda > > schematic and send it to an orcad user and do them any good. > > Never could take a Viewlogic schematic and send it to an Orcad user > either. So there's nothing new here. > > > Nor can you > > take an orcad file and use it. This is a very tall wall which stops > > people from being able to work together. > > Even the major commercial tools can't break down each other's walls. > > > > > > >>> > >>> Would open office be as big a player if it couldn't handle doc > >>> and xls > >>> files? > >>> > >> > >> Different game. The big tools can't even interoperate with each > >> other: ever try to exchange a design with EDIF (shudder)? > >> > > > > > > A different game? I think not. See the tall wall discussion above. > > Would you think it important to get TeX to read Word files? > Versatile, effective toolkit versus bloated, inefficient tool. I hope > gEDA stays versatile and effective. > > John Doty Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd. > http://www.noqsi.com/ > j...@noqsi.com > > _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user