But they most certainly DO need the features for doing complex, high-speed, sophisticated boards.

These folks don’t need massive enterprise-style collaboration features, centralized library management, and the other stuff that giant teams require. If you were a huge company with giant design teams that required all the “enterprise” features related to team design, collaboration, IP sharing, and library management, the PCB tool vendors gave you all the features needed for leading-edge, high-performance board design.īut, if you were a smaller company or team who didn’t require all the big collaboration features, you got the toy-like “desktop” PCB tools which didn’t include the stuff you needed for high-performance, high-density board design.ĭoes anybody else see a problem with this? Quite often, the most innovative and demanding designs in the world are being done by startups, small companies, and small teams within large companies. For some reason, PCB tools have always been sold with a built-in wrong assumption – that only big companies with large design teams are doing sophisticated designs. Well, anybody except for the folks who actually sell PCB tools, that is. Anybody who has ever bought professional PCB software has probably noticed a problem with the way PCB tools have always been packaged, priced, and marketed.

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