Bruce Northrop wrote:
So much for professionalism.
Yeah, he's dreaming of pie in the sky now, but next week, when he starts using that wonderful new (but unnamed) software, his dream job may become a horrible nightmare.
I tried using some Mentor tools for IC design, but it is part of the same
suite that contains the PCB tools. I just wanted to get a feel for the process
that the guys who were designing an ASIC for us would go through.
I followed a tutorial, and laid out a flip-flop and simulated it. The tools appeared to be a GUI grafted onto a bunch of code that was essentially unchanged since it ran on punch cards on an IBM 360 mainframe 30 years ago. There were layers of huge menus with 30+ items in them, which called up more menus, ad infinitum. Commands were only available from the right menu, or with 2 letter key sequences. I came back on Monday and had fogotten everything I had figured out just 2 days before.
If this is what the PCB tools are like, I'm sure glad I can't afford them!
Jon
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