Hey you Lucky Devil!
Well since you have the great opportunity to choose, I'll tell you something
It boils down to 2 Cad Packages
Mentor is used mainly for Rf-layout and is the leader in that market.
Cadance Allegro is most mostly in the Computer industry everything form PC
to computer peripherals. It is also the leader in that market.
I currently used Accel although not as good as Allegro, they are catching up
with their add-on utilities. If price is not a factor go with Cadance, you
won't regret it.

Patrick Jabbaz
Halliburton Energy Services
Circuit Board Designer
(281) 596-6697
Houston, Texas
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-----Original Message-----
From: Khaled Hassan Fouad <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wednesday, May 06, 1998 4:30 PM
Subject: [DC] what cad software is better.


>Dear designers,
>My company is establishing a new devision for PCB design, so we are
>goining to buy cad software,but we are confused with all the cad
>software on the market. I have to choose from these 4 alternatives:
>1. Mentor graphics Board station on windows NT
>2. ACCEL EDA
>3. PADS
>4. Ultimate
>
>So please help me with my decision.
>
>--
>Khaled H. Fouad
>PCB Design Engineer, R&D Department
>PCB Egypt , Member of BAHGAT Group Foundation
>http://www.bahgat.com
>Email : [log in to unmask]
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