PCB CAD

[Don Prescott]

Check out the Altera website. They have 14,000 (paying) customers
and
made over $800 million last year. Or the Xilinx website. A swarthy
group of "mission critical" customers gave them 1.4 billion last
year.
Each of them _ship_ cygwin and GCC as part of their development flow.
Last I checked, those tools are open source.

The theme is PCB CAD matey – YES, I know all about FPGA design
tools... Altera and Xilinx's interest is in selling FPGAs NOT in
selling tools. They give away the design tools so you buy their
hardware. This wasn't what we were arguing about... Show me a well
known company using open source PCB CAD tools on mainstream $$$$KKKK
projects....not file servers! not FPGA! PCB CAD

Prescott

 

I'd rather hear you make a compelling case for using closed source
tools.

I heard you the first 10 times when you said, "open source PCB sucks".


Now let's hear from you why close source PCB CAD is so great.


Chris

Don Prescott wrote:

Check out the Altera website. They have 14,000 (paying) customers
and
made over $800 million last year. Or the Xilinx website. A swarthy
group of "mission critical" customers gave them 1.4 billion last
year.
Each of them _ship_ cygwin and GCC as part of their development
flow.
Last I checked, those tools are open source.

The theme is PCB CAD matey - YES, I know all about FPGA design
tools... Altera and Xilinx's interest is in selling FPGAs NOT in
selling tools. They give away the design tools so you buy their
hardware. This wasn't what we were arguing about... Show me a well
known company using open source PCB CAD tools on mainstream $$$$KKKK
projects....not file servers! not FPGA! PCB CAD

Prescott