We've been using Altium's P-CAD for a few years (started as TangoEDA). Currently running 2002 and very unlikely to upgrade as, in my opinion, it is not a very good product and the company just loves to collect their $1,500 a year by releasing bogus "service packs". Still lots of very fundamental issues that remain without attention.
Anyhow, the question is, what do we move up to? Not looking for the $100K+ packages. What are people using that performs well for designing (schematic) and laying out high-speed, high-complexity PCB's? I've heard that PADS may have the largest installed base out there. I remember getting a demo of Mentor's Expedition at a tradeshow. It seemed like a pretty serious tool, although I'd suspect it comes at a hefty price.
Any recommendations? The need will be here in another six months or so. I want to do my research well ahead of that.
Thanks,
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Martin Euredjian
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