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I use the full version of Eagle at work. We have a 5 seat license.
It can't really be beat for smaller projects, but it starts to struggle with larger stuff. The project I'm working on just now is a 30 x 20cm 4-layer board with 17 A3 sheets of schematics, about 2500 pins in total, and that's about as big as I'd care to go. This time round, I just need to produce a netlist and bill of materials, and someone else will lay it out for me in PADS.
Digilent use Eagle to design their FPGA boards.
Multisim is a simulator, Eagle is a PCB layout program. They don't compare.
One cool thing about Eagle is that it runs on Mac and Linux as well as Windows. (and the copy/paste function doesn't make sense on any of them! :( ) Cadsoft recently changed it so that your license is valid on any platform.
My all-time favourite was probably Protel, which is now called Altium.
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I should have said Multisim + Ultiboard (I thought they combined them).
I'm surprised Multisim + Ultiboard isn't more popular than Eagle since it allows you to enter schematics, test the circuit with spice and then create a pcb. Doesn't the addition of simulation to the the process make it a winner?
Steve McConner wrote ...
My all-time favourite was probably Protel, which is now called Altium.
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Multisim+Ultiboard is considerably more expensive than Eagle and LTSpice. The simulation isn't integrated, but that's not an issue for me, I'm not a heavy user of simulation anyway. In my experience, for anything non-trivial, it takes longer to debug a simulation than it does to breadboard the actual circuit and test it for real. And often you want to simulate a different circuit than what you're laying out.
Protel had proper hierarchical schematics and good features for design management. It also had a WYSIWG layout editor where what you saw on screen was exactly what would appear in the Gerber files, and a cool gimmick that let you view your board in 3D, and presumably export a 3D model to help with mechanical design.
Eagle's library system is poorly thought out, and Protel's is almost certainly better. They'd really have to try to make it worse.
And our PCB layout guy likes it and is trying to persuade us to change to it.
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