??? 04/18/06 17:21 Read: times |
#114468 - Yes, about five IC's Responding to: ???'s previous message |
and, of course, that will take about a dozen passives, mostly bypass members.
Keep in mind, though, that the old OrCAD has LOTS of library and it's readily accessible, unlike what's in most other packages, as shipped. Back in the early '80's, I produced and sold an adapter from a Z80 socket to a WD1000-05 HDC board, about the size of a business card, that has a 40-conductor cable connector, a diode, a few capacitors, a few (3) resistors, and three IC's in addition to the CPU, which I use as a benchmark. I hand-routed the PCB back then, as this software wasn't yet available, but I remember the circuit pretty well and can enter it without giving it too much thought. Using the same parts placement, if that's possible, all through-hole, since that's how the original was built, it takes about 20 minutes (schematic takes about 5) with the OrCAD tools for DOS. If the schematic didn't take so long, BEagle doesn't do badly, in this case, either, BTW, since it's a 2-layer board. It Autoroutes it to completion in about 5 seconds, and there's little you'd want to do manually, either, aside, perhaps, from changing the track widths in places, which it doesn't readily allow. RE |