Re: [OT] Software to draw microprocessor schematics
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 04:54:44PM -0700, Mike Pfleger wrote:
| On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 07:25:21PM -0400, D-Man wrote:
| <SNIP>
| > There is also OrCad. This is a commercial product that is free for
| > student use. It is really quite good (I used it for my Intro to
| > Digital course), but it requires MS Windows. Maybe it would work
| > under wine? There is another name for it, but I don't remember right
| > now.
|
| OrCAD... they had an amusing reaction to my asking about using their
| windoze-only products under Linux via vmware. They didn't actually
| say they were opposed to it, but they _strongly_ recommended not
| doing it. Probably has something to do with it locking to the NIC
| in the non-dongle versions. Oh, and it was a dog under vmware.
| S L O W
Interesting. I still had Win98 as dual-boot when I was using it, and
it was also available on the (windows) machines in that lab.
| They have (interestingly, since they are owned by Cadence now) also
| expressed a complete lack of interest in porting their Capture and
| Layout products to Linux/*nix. Cadence makes some _really_ nice IC
| physical layout and verification tools that run/ran on Solaris and
| possibly other unices. Big bucks, mind you.
I used to co-op (when I was in high-school) for Ortho-Clinical
Diagnostics, a Johnson and Johnson company, in the Electrical Design
Center department. A lot of the engineers there used Cadence (on SUN
boxes). I do remember, now, checking out their site to see if they
had anything for me, but it was very expensive!
-D
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