Several common PCB production tools are introduced

PCB manufacturing software with each passing day, the past things obviously has been out of date, so according to I made a brief introduction to the current understanding, sweep to blind, in the province of don't know what specific software is stem what of, hope useful for everyone.

Early EDA companies have more than 1000, and later developed to 10 or so, the Cadence, Mentor, Zuken mainly high-end products, their demands for software on the workstation, the operating system is Unix, and expensive.Since the 80 s have EDA software, at that time only UNIX support graphical interface, and the performance of the workstation are much higher than the PC, so that continues to this day, now the big company or a workstation.However, protel, powerPCB, is mainly aimed at low-end users, and is not highly configured for computers, and generally runs under Windows.The average PC can meet the requirements well.

As the CPU and associated computer hardware level continues to improve, Cadence,Mentor and Zuken begin to release products under Windows, which cadense is moving faster.As if it was 2000, the EDA industry was reshuffled because of the collapse of the Internet bubble, and several companies were restructured!

From market share for. Mentor company is now the highest. Cadence second. Third Zuken company. A single PCB tools, Allegro software share in high-end users in China should be the highest, the second powerPCB, protel more users in mainland China.

Specifically:

Mentor's products are boardstation(en) and expeditionpcb(wg) and acquired pads (powerPCB).En is the legendary PCB master, those who only consider the cost of the construction period, always do the 8 - to 12-layer PCB communication and military research institute must kill the stunt.Wg seems to agree that all BBS agree that this is the best wiring tool on earth.Powerpcb won't say anything, and there are plenty of people.After the company acquired PowerPCB, the company continued to walk on two legs, the high-end of the original Mentor, now the latest version of Mentor EN2006;Low-end products are also PowerPCB. The new name is PADS2005. The latest name is PADS2007, but PADS2005SP2 is a more stable version.

There is also a small German software very popular, is EAGLE, in Europe and America very market, I have been fortunate to have a few boards.

Cadence's products are concept/allegro and acquired orcad.Allegro has been hot recently, especially now that the high value-added products such as computer motherboards and graphics CARDS are in allegro format, although powerpcb was the industry standard three or five years ago.Cadence company acquired ORCAD, and the principle diagram of the strengths of ORCAD capture CIS and Cadence schematic diagram of the original DESIGN concept HDL, allegro PCB tools and other signal simulation tool to launch and collectively referred to as Cadence PSD, now called.spb, the latest version 16.0, ORCAD also integrated into the.spb, 15.5 no ORCAD this concept, the previous ORCAD capture CIS now call the DESIGN ENTRY CIS.

Zuken is another EDA predators, is Japan's, high-end products cr5000, low-end called CADSTAR except outside the Japanese and do business with Japan still has a lot of companies with Zuken software, some domestic studies and some old TV enterprise with LG with the tool of Zuken, NOKIA is in use.

Mentor:

1.Powerlogic+Powerpcb2. Viewdraw + Expedition 3. The schematic diagram of the master push now is the DxDesigner (the upgraded version of viewdraw), PADS and Expedition use this, and the principle diagram tool of Boardstation is the Design Archive and Board Archive.

Cadence: the schematic diagram tool mainly includes Capture and Concept, and the PCB tool has Allegro Layout Plus.

Zuken:

1. Cadstar 2. CR3000, CR5000. CR3000 has been upgraded to CR5000, CR5000 has two PCB tools, PWS and BD, as of 2007, the version of CR5000 is BD10.0, PWS18.0, CADSTAR9.0

Tools used by big companies:

Intel Concept+Allegro+ SpecctraQuest

The Dell viewdraw+ Allegro + SQ schematic diagram is also partially Capture

Huawei viewdraw+ Allegro + SpecctraQuest+

ZTE Concept+Allegro+ SpecctraQuest+ for the dation

UT Concept+Allegro+ SpecctraQuest USES POWERPCB

Csico Concept+Allegro+ SpecctraQuest

Hp Concept+Allegro+ SpecctraQuest from Boardstation to Alllegro process

Moto Concept+Allegro+ SpecctraQuest is transferred from Boardstation to Alllegro process

These tools are not available to everyone, and you choose what you like and what you use.