Orcad has netlisters for Mentor baordstation. Your customer is able to
generate these files within a minute. Don't let him fool ya.

regards,

Peter Marek
General Director
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Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 5:13 PM
Subject: [DC] Orcad Netlist


> Dear Designers
> Can anyone of with Mentor Graphics experience help me on that.
> I received a package from a customer stating that he uses the orcad as
> his schematic capture and PADS as his PCB backend.
> My mission is to use this orcad netlist to route and place the required
> board on Mentor boardstation. The data he sent me was (*.net, *.olb,
> *.dsn), how am I going to use these files to go on to layout ?
> Is there a white paper or a known hand-on experience that I can use ?
>
> Need Advice.
> Thank You and have a nice day.
>
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> Khaled H. Fouad
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