From Prolific@cup.portal.com Sat Mar 20 18:30:06 1993 Received: from nova.unix.portal.com by toadflax.cs.ucdavis.edu (4.1/UCD.CS.2.1) id AA15239; Sat, 20 Mar 93 18:30:04 PST Return-Path: Received: by nova.unix.portal.com (5.65b/4.1 1.238) id AA04206; Sat, 20 Mar 93 18:29:59 -0800 Received: by portal.unix.portal.com (1.497) id AA07271; Sat, 20 Mar 93 18:29:57 -0800 Received: by hobo.corp.portal.com (4.1/4.0.3 %I%) id AA18842; Sat, 20 Mar 93 18:29:57 PST To: announce@cs.ucdavis.edu From: Prolific@cup.portal.com (Jeff Lindstrom) Subject: Pro-Board demo available for FTP Lines: 125 Date: Sat, 20 Mar 93 18:29:56 PST Message-Id: <9303201829.1.18692@cup.portal.com> X-Origin: The Portal System (TM) Status: R [ Jeff is manager of technical support at Prolific. -Dan ] TITLE Demonstration version of fully automatic Printed Circuit Board placement and routing package. VERSION Pro-Board_Demo V3.03 COMPANY Prolific, Inc. 6905 Oslo Circle, Ste. B3 Buena Park, CA 90621 Phone: (714) 522-5655 FAX: (714) 994-6435 InterNet: Prolific@cup.portal.com DESCRIPTION The demonstration version of Pro-Board is fully functional except that it cannot save PCB data files. Pro-Lib is fully functional. The plotting and printing utility, Pro-Plot, is not included. This description is a brief review of the capabilities of the commercial version of Pro-Board. Functions described in this file which require saving, plotting, or printing the PCB cannot be demonstrated with the demo version of Pro-Board. Pro-Board V3 provides the ability to design and route Printed Circuit Boards, using either manual, guided, or fully automatic placement and routing. Direct support for 16 layer PCBs, plus automatic Power and Ground layer generation. English and Metric coordinates supported. Easily add DIPs, SIPs, 2-Pin devices (such as standard, though-hole resistors and capacitors), and Library Parts (custom designed for unique physical footprints, such as PGA and PLCC ICs, transistors, and SMT components). Automatic placement of all Devices is allowed. This operation can be applied to every component en masse or to groups of components separated according to your needs. Standard PCB resolution is 0.025" (25 mils) with 12 mil traces and 13 mil separations. Fine Line mode operates on a 20 mil grid with 8 mil trace widths and separations, allowing two traces to be routed between two standard Pads with a 0.1" separation. Wide traces range from 12 to 400 mils. Powerful Maze Search algorithm is used to find the shortest path to connect two points. If suitable, a trace will be drawn to another pin if already connected, or a trace segment will be drawn to an existing trace if that provides the best results. Automatic routing on two layers uses the Channel Search algorithm to route horizontal traces on one layer and vertical traces on the other. Works with Pro-Net Net Lists to aid routing by highlighting the Pins to be connected in each Net. You will not have to refer to the Solder layers only, both layers, or as standard through-hole components. Place pins under mouse or keyboard control with selectable orientation. Standard resolutions are 25 and 20 mils. High resolution definitions supported down to 1 mil (0.001"). Drawing tools allow lines, polygons, boxes, circles and text on the Label, Component, Solder, and Pad layers. Draw Device outlines and installation aids, or electrical pathways. Context sensitive on-line Help function. Context sensitive hierarchical command structure consistent with Pro-Net and Pro-Board. Devices which can easily be defined with Pro-Lib include Pin Grid Array (PGA) and Plastic Leaded Chip Carrier (PLCC) ICs, SMT resistors and capacitors, power transistors, ZIP memory chips, and goldfinger edge connectors. SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS Prolific products work under AmigaDOS V1.3, V2, and V3. Pro-Board now requires 1 Meg for small projects and, typically, 1.5 Megs for medium to large PCBs. A hard disk is recommended. Will work with 1 or 2 floppies. All products use integer math, so there is no loss of speed for systems which do not have a math coprocessor. LhA or equivalent is required to extract the archive. IconX must be in C: for Workbench installation. HOST NAME Anonymous FTP Available on amiga.physik.unizh.ch (130.60.80.80) Commercial Also available on Portal. DIRECTORY amiga.physik.unizh.ch (130.60.80.80) : pub/aminet/biz/demo Portal: GO 23365.3.1.3 FILE NAME PBDEMO303.lha DISTRIBUTABILITY Copyright by Prolific, Inc. This demonstration version may be freely distributed.