[Arm-netbook] A10 board with schematics

[luke.leighton]

On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 2:37 PM, Hrvoje Lasic <lasich at gmail.com> wrote:

> which tools do you use for dealing with DDR3 RAM?

 i'd recommend Allegro or PADS: both of them have support for the
features needed.

 actually i'd recommend PADS - it's absolutely bloody brilliant.
ORCAD's Capture program is marginally better than PADS Logic (which
has a few slightly annoying niggles), but Allegro's PCB layout
user-interface is f*****g shit.  no wonder people who use it charge
such a lot of money.  all the menus are just... thrown at you and
you're expected to know as if by magic how it works.

by contrast, PADS is intuitive, all the menus are context-sensitive,
everything's laid out in an obvious fashion, and it pretty much "just
works".  want to do some auto-routing?  a popup comes up which has all
the relevant options, which, if you click on them, it pulls up the
relevant section of the global config *but* it pre-selects the
appropriate area for you.  by contrast, Allegro just expects you to
know as if by magic which one of several hundred global options
*might* happen to be relevant that got chucked into the menu over the
years.

l.