thermionic
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Hi,
I recently read here that Eagle now imports PSpice files. Good, but is there a package which carries the circuit emulation through to the PCB layout itself?
Obviously, circuit emulation itself is no substitute for building the real thing (none of the designers I know rely on emulation - they're invariably quite scathing about it and start telling you to knuckle down and make a breadboard). It might be a little too much to ask for a package to analyse potential for parasitics and x-talk (although not unreasonable?) etc, but what about one that simply checks the PCB is a faithful transcription of the schematic? One that makes sure -ve is connected to -ve - and that you haven't flipped phase on one channel etc..
Having spent many hours with scalpel and iron, debugging faults on PCBs due to human error, such a piece of software would be revolutionary to me. Which package does it? Is it relatively affordable?
Thanks in advance.
I recently read here that Eagle now imports PSpice files. Good, but is there a package which carries the circuit emulation through to the PCB layout itself?
Obviously, circuit emulation itself is no substitute for building the real thing (none of the designers I know rely on emulation - they're invariably quite scathing about it and start telling you to knuckle down and make a breadboard). It might be a little too much to ask for a package to analyse potential for parasitics and x-talk (although not unreasonable?) etc, but what about one that simply checks the PCB is a faithful transcription of the schematic? One that makes sure -ve is connected to -ve - and that you haven't flipped phase on one channel etc..
Having spent many hours with scalpel and iron, debugging faults on PCBs due to human error, such a piece of software would be revolutionary to me. Which package does it? Is it relatively affordable?
Thanks in advance.