CF640           CAD/PCB design/engineering
Schematic Design for Under $300
 
Microbytes Daily News Service
Copyright (c) 1989, McGraw-Hill, Inc.
Phase Three Logic reports it will release next week a PCB
design package that will let you work with up to 10,000 design
elements within 640K bytes of RAM. The program's incremental
netlist extractor lets you load part of a design into memory.
 
CF640 includes a program that automatically assigns reference
designators and pin numbers to physical packages. Other
features are Xilinx and Abel interfaces; symbol libraries; a
symbol creation editor; a library of more than 5500 parts; a
PADS-PCB back annotator; Spice interface tools; a Susie digital
interface; and interfaces to other printed circuit board CAD
systems such as PADS-PCB, Scicards, and Cadds4x.
 
CF640 runs on the IBM PC AT or higher. The company plans to
release versions for Sun and DEC workstations in 1990.
 
Price: $295; Unix versions start at $1950.
 
Contact: Phase Three Logic, Inc., 1600 N.W. 167th Place,
Beaverton, OR 97006, (503) 645-0313.
 
                              --- David L. Andrews
 
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