Pete; Just who is it that is doing the benchmark? I have seen many benchmarks in the past that seem to be tailored to the design system/VAR that is doing the benchmark. What criteria will this benchmark include? Routing... sch - pcb integrity... ease of use.. packaging... documentation... I believe that I need just a little more info on just what we are expecting as a return on conducting the benchmark before I can show my support for such an event. Have a nice day, Steve Sarasin PulseCom ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Subject: [DESIGNERCOUNCIL] design tools Author: [log in to unmask] (Pete Waddell) at SMTP Date: 9/11/97 10:21 AM I've noticed quite a bit of discussion on this forum about tools - who's is the best etc. A couple of weeks ago we posted a call for participation and/or comment for PCB Benchmark '98. We received only one response from this forum. Are you folks really just not interested in an open benchmark? Do you have feelings one way or the other about the PCB Benchmark series? Are you familiar with "the Benchmark"? Or do ya just not care. We brought this thing back because attendees at the PCB Design Conference were asking us to, but haven't seen much interest from this list. What's da deal? Pete [log in to unmask] ############################################################## IPC Designers Council Mail List provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8c ############################################################## To subscribe/unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the body: To subscribe: SUBSCRIBE DESIGNERCOUNCIL <your full name> To unsubscribe: SIGNOFF DESIGNERCOUNCIL ############################################################## Please visit IPC web site (http://www.ipc.org/html/forum.htm) for additional inf ormation. For the technical support contact Dmitriy Sklyar at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-97 00 ext.311 ############################################################## ############################################################## IPC Designers Council Mail List provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8c ############################################################## To subscribe/unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the body: To subscribe: SUBSCRIBE DESIGNERCOUNCIL <your full name> To unsubscribe: SIGNOFF DESIGNERCOUNCIL ############################################################## Please visit IPC web site (http://www.ipc.org/html/forum.htm) for additional information. For the technical support contact Dmitriy Sklyar at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.311 ##############################################################