Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: Homebrew PCBs

----- Original Message -----
From: "Alexandre Souza" <alexandre-listas@...>
To: <Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 2:17 PM
Subject: Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] advanced routing


> > That can help a lot. The software I use highlights an entire net when it
> is
> > selected. I can use different colours for different nets, as well.
>
> Leon, can you say more about the software you use, and how it compares
> to Protel?

I've used Pulsonix since it first came out: http://www.pulsonix.com

I'm one of their beta testers, so I'm biased. Try the demo (100 pins limit).
They will give you a fully working 30 day license if you need to check it
properly.

I tried the latest Protel, just out of curiosity. It's rather slow on my
hardware, and difficult to use. It has lots more features than PSX, but they
aren't very useful, IMO. It's also a lot more expensive and has lots of
bugs, according to the PEDA list, which they don't fix until the next
release. The autorouter is still unusable, apparently. PSX has very few bugs
(I and the other testers catch most of them) and they get fixed immediately
they are reported.

I formed a PSX users group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PulsonixUG/. It
gets very little use, because the product is so easy to use and the support
is so good.

Leon