#EAZYDRAW ANNOTATE SOFTWARE#
These also do simulations which I loved one software package that does everything right is rare! I've also used Orcad (blech!) for stuff but find that program is miserable to use and refuse to use it now if I have a choice. I've done medical circuits, RF stuff and pretty much anything audio/tube related with Eagle and it works beautifully, especially once you learn the quirks of the interface.įWIW I used to use Protel 99 and then moved onto Altium Designer, both great and very powerful (too much so really for our needs) packages that are bloody expensive. I've done everything from single layer boards to six layer boards in Eagle (it can do like 16 layers I think) using anything from 0201 resistors to inductors that can handle many amps of current. Many professionals and big companies use Eagle now, it's not quite industry standard but like at TI there were many groups who used this software to do all of their boards. There's also a lot of downloadable libraries which I have had great success with - it seems the CadSoft guys actually check out the models before they post them online.
They give you stuff like database management (make quick BOM's and such), missed connection zooming tools, automatic parts placement tools, heck the list goes on and on. For this it helps to know how the manufacturing process works.Īlso I use a lot of the little downloadable scripts available from Eagle's website. It takes some practice making boards and screwing up little details before you get it right, but this is true of any layout software. Once you use it for a while you'll build up a nice library of parts that have been confirmed good which also speeds up your work dramatically.
Once you get good with Eagle the time from starting schematic capture to finishing most layouts will be less than a day, more typically only a few hours. There's sort of a learning curve but IMHO this is some of the best schematic capture/layout software available, especially for our level of usage (simple 1-2 layer boards). I started using Eagle when I started at PAiA (about when 5.0 came out).
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