[Coco] Cloud-9 Product Comments Wanted

[jdaggett at gate.net]

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. 

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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.