John Whittaker wrote: > Peter > I agree. Our investment into Protel has been tremendous. We are not > shareholders, so we have no voice, but I feel as though they should invest > more in getting their tools to be stable and well behaved, although I > understand market pressures can drive decisions, as well. Oh well, I still > stick with Protel, but I am concerned about them devoting the resources > necessary to back up their tremendous marketing effort with product that > delivers commensurate with the price (and investment into the learning > curve).
Yes, I grumble about Protel/Altium too, until I compare it to something else I'm using, which is the Xilinx ISE tools for their FPGAs. They come out with 1 - 2 major releases a year. The latest release has a new schematic capture pacakage that is incompatible with the Aldec package they used before. I called them up, and they said "sorry, we have no converter, you'll just have to reenter all your schematics by hand!" Their new package is only slightly better than the Aldec horror, and may actually be worse. It is incredibly difficult to reroute wires. Sometimes I struggle for 5-15 minutes moving ONE wire over a little. I like very compact schematics. They think that one gate per page is a good idea. The basic scheme is that you are supposed to delete anything and draw it in again, instead of moving and editing. UGH! This is the SECOND time in 2-3 years that they have abandoned a schematic package, and left all designs to reenter the schematics. Xilinx is a Billion$ company, too, although most of that is chips, not software. Jon * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 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 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
