If you are a PSpice Schematics User you need to be aware that Cadence and EMA-EDA will discontinue support of PSpice Schematics at the 10.05 Release. You will then be forced to use (gag me with a spoon) OrCAD Capture. I urge you to contact Cadence and/or EMA-EDA to voice your concerns. (If you wish to E-mail me, please go to my website to obtain the current white-listed address.) ...Jim Thompson -- | James E.Thompson, P.E. | mens | | Analog Innovations, Inc. | et | | Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus | | Phoenix, Arizona Voice480)460-2350 | | | E-mail Address at Website Fax480)460-2142 | Brass Rat | | http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 | I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.
You could use LTSpice instead. Since it outputs a netlist I've been thinking about making a script to convert its netlist output to PADS-2K format. This is mostly just for the fun of it. I still use the Orcad DOS-386 schematic capture. It does everything I want done in creating schematics for making boards from. I tried using the Windows Capture program on one project. It refused to let me add another sheet to the design until I exited the program and restarted it. Later on, it cleverly rewired my circuit putting a wire between every posible node pair. It is real junk software. BTW: I also tried to layout a board with the Orcad PCB-386 once. What a nightmare that program was. I ended up sending the job out and abandoning the work I'd done. Ever since Cadence bought Orcad, their decline has become a power dive. Rant ... Rant ... Rant
Why? Resistance is futile. It makes no real business sense for a company to continue to support two products like this. they aint goanna change their mind on this one Kevin Aylward http://www.anasoft.co.uk SuperSpice, a very affordable Mixed-Mode Windows Simulator with Schematic Capture, Waveform Display, FFT's and Filter Design.
My fall-back position is a PSpice look-alike that will soon be to the market. But everything, no matter look-alike, has a learning curve. LTSpice is not general enough nor robust enough for my needs... I earn my living with PSpice. [snip] OrCAD was crap long before Cadence got involved. I used OrCAD under DOS. When they tried to make their own windows-like version it went straight downhill, and **never** recovered. You'd think, since they bought MicroSim, that they would learn what a user-friendly schematic tool really looks like, and incorporate those features into Capture... not a chance... that company must have the highest degree of NIH known to man :-( ...Jim Thompson -- | James E.Thompson, P.E. | mens | | Analog Innovations, Inc. | et | | Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus | | Phoenix, Arizona Voice480)460-2350 | | | E-mail Address at Website Fax480)460-2142 | Brass Rat | | http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 | I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.
Hi Jim, It is pretty doubtful that even dozens of complaints will make them revoke that kind of biz decision. I don't remember any case where that was the case, except maybe automotive where customers were able to cajole manufacturers to continue a line for a few more years. But it almost has to involve the press, so in this case you'd have to get it into EEDesign. Other than that it's back to things like DOS OrCAD. That was the most reliable CAD tool I ever used and I might dust mine off and start again. Another option may be Eagle but that's Windows based and the parts editor is not so easy to use in my view. But that program allows you to generate scripts that can do all kinds of stuff, even spit out a netlists modified to whatever Spice wants. Sometimes others write these scripts and then post them on the Cadsoft server. Pretty nice. Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com
The non-386 version of Draft did everything needed and was fairly easy to learn. The only really weird thing was that the quit menu was where you saved your file etc. The 386 version of draft could and did use more memory. Other than that it was the same. I'd always pictured it as a death spiral. I think their idea for the macros in the Windows version is really cute. You can hook in any visual basic program you care to write so long as it interfaces to their stuff just right. If I wanted to write my own program, I'd write my own. Give me back the simple key press recording please.
I still use Word 7.0. In 20 years time, why would I want to upgrade? Kevin Aylward http://www.anasoft.co.uk SuperSpice, a very affordable Mixed-Mode Windows Simulator with Schematic Capture, Waveform Display, FFT's and Filter Design.
I still use Word 7.0. In 20 years time, why would I want to upgrade? Do you have occasion to deal with received attachments that are formatted with a version later than that? What is your technique then?
I never get them. I think readers are available, anyway, the sender can convert to text! Its a law of diminishing returns. Like, modern music keyboards have perfect piano, brass, guitar sounds etc, new stuff just adds redundant waffle. Kevin Aylward http://www.anasoft.co.uk SuperSpice, a very affordable Mixed-Mode Windows Simulator with Schematic Capture, Waveform Display, FFT's and Filter Design.
You should try it again. I'm very pleased with version 9.1 especially with the CIS option. But, you should run it on an NT based Windows (not 98, ME, etc) and good quality PC hardware.
[... panning Orcad's Capture ...] Perhaps your standards are too low. Have you ever tried the DOS Draft program? I find it far far easier to use than Capture. You use your left hand to poke keys on the keyboard while your right hand moves the cursor. It has an auto-pan feature and macros which were left out of the Windows one I tried. It also doesn't require a special PC with a special OS to run. It will run in a DOS window under everything but perhaps XP. I only exclude XP because I haven't tried it. BTW: DOS Orcad will also run quite nicely under Linux. So I can install my own copy at home and work at home or at work with the same user interface.
I believe they're going public next week... at least that's when I'm to receive a "production" version. I have to remain silent on who-what-where-when, until they make their announcement. ...Jim Thompson -- | James E.Thompson, P.E. | mens | | Analog Innovations, Inc. | et | | Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus | | Phoenix, Arizona Voice480)460-2350 | | | E-mail Address at Website Fax480)460-2142 | Brass Rat | | http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 | I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.
