> Well, you can count me in as a 10 hats per day kind of guy. I actually > consider myself luckier than the "one gun" specialist. I get to do a > variety of tasks in different areas of design. I can stay involved in a > project from design concept to finished product, and be a part of the design > of each stage along the way. I find this much more interesting than > specializing in one particular thing. No offense to those who do - it just > isn't for me.
The work is great! It's dealing with the 10 different sets of bugs in the 10 different fields that is the problem ;-) The kind of ones that make a carreer change to greenkeeping seem appealing. > As far as Protel goes, I think the overall strategy of the SCH, PCB, SIM, > CAM integration is a good thing. Altium just needs to fix the bugs, > integrate the pieces better, make the autorouter better, and flush the stuff > that just plain doesn't work or isn't useful. I don't know why Altium > wanted to buy that embedded compiler company (was it BSO tasking?). If > purposes were lines, the PCB design and embedded compiling would be skew > lines. That PeakVHDL thing, whatever happened to it? I don't see the need > for it, since Xilinx and Lattice both have VHDL synthesis built in to their > free stuff. Another money-for-nothing acquistion? Altium, stop buying > companies and spend that money on improving your core product! I think that SOC might be the linkage, but that is just wild speculation. The core PCB package is great & like so many since 99SE I applaud Protel for their efforts in this area. The downside is that the fluff has done nothing other than allow the purchase price to increase. This is bad as the upgrade cost follows accordingly, and at the end of the day... all for nought :-( Cheers Don * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html * * Contact the list manager: * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Forum Guidelines Rules: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/forumrules.html * * Browse or Search previous postings: * http://www.mail-archive.com/proteledaforum@techservinc.com * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
