[Coco] Cloud-9 Product Comments Wanted

[Mark Marlette]

At 08:39 PM 1/26/2005, you wrote:

james,

I hate traffic too but it is a fact of life.

I run the Specctra autorouter at home which is of the Cadence stock now. 
I'll agree that it is the captain of autorouters. I like it, works well and 
fast. When it comes to the trace crunch it works well.

Curious...When you say you route by hand. Is this for your job or what you 
do at home? I can't image that hand routing is in much demand these days. I 
do this for fun and won't hand route. Kind of like my Mom use to say about 
not having a dishwasher. "I like to wash dishes." Well I don't mind it but 
if I had a choice to do other things, washing dishes wouldn't be too high 
on my fun list. Same goes with routing.......IMHO. The things I do, 
SuperIDE pushed a double layer board too close to the edge, I'm fine with 
the router or I buy another option license to tackle the analog/digital 
separation issue, etc. I'm 41 now and have been with the coco a year or so 
short of it's whole life. Don't need to grow older any faster....... :)

Mark




>Mark
>
>I hate autorouters, they are pitifully pathetic in routing. Secondly if
>you have lots or room and slow speed digital, then an autorouter is
>ok.  The only decent autorouter that I have worked with is Spectra,
>which is now a product of Cadence Allegro PCB tools. The old
>autorouter in Allegro before they bought Spectra, was garbage. The
>autorouter in Mentor Graphics was less desirable. I mean we are
>talking about software packages that cost upward to $50K one time
>cost with annual seat licenses of $2K per yr. They had garbage
>autorouters.
>
>james
>
>
>I still prefer to route by hand. Especially RF and high speed Data.
>
>On 25 Jan 2005 at 23:18, Mark Marlette wrote:
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> > The SuperIDE is also pushed the autorouter to the max on the double
> > layer design. A lesson learned not to push it that hard and to go to
> > multi-layer design. The SB will be multi-layer, no doubt.
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