Mitch Morey wrote:
>
> Karl,
>
> Before you invest much time, you might just want to point at the
> benchmark results off the PC Design mag webpage. It has a pretty
> comprehensive list of functionalities (e.g. routing, placement, libraries,
> and the miscellaneous), plus the benchmark results (actual boards
> shown) , and their grades. That will at least give you most of what you
> need for Cadence, Veribest, Pads, Zuken, etc., etc. (except for Mentor,
> we'll have to take the users words for that information).
>
I don't think benchmark results will give even most of the results a
designer might want to see.
Even though the benchmarks are useful for organizing software by features
and performance, I think we need to go a step further if this really gets
off the ground. Benchmarks are done by people who know the software package
they are using _very_ well and don't really address ease of use, training
curve, and applicibility to the task.
The only real way to do what needs to be done would have discussion amoung
the _users_ of different software package about a particular feature. That
way all the users would get input from the people "in the trenches" rather
than getting a benchmark done by employees of an EDA company who just MIGHT
have some bias toward a particular package (:-o
Maybe more of a roundtable thing, maybe at one of the conferences???
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