That is a very cool tool. Not to complain too much, but the first design I tried was a simple differential amp (current source, diff pair, current mirror), and the lack of a "mirror part" control ended up making for pretty sloppy layout (although the auto-route to avoid labels stuff is pretty neat).
Hi Tony, is this your circuit http://upverter.com/tonyarkles/fc405a95ad5ac85c/basic-amp/ ? I see the Q1/Q2 current mirror. The rest doesn't look quite finished here, but perhaps I'm not seeing the right revision. Curious to know if you were trying to draw it from memory/intuition, or trying to put an existing schematic into the tool?
Thanks tonyarkles, we thought that doing a rotate twice would solve that, but with op-amps a mirror might look better, I will add it to our to-do list.
Very NICE! I've heard about you guys but never tried...yet!
A question if I may: Any particular reason for calling yourselves a hardware company? Wouldn't electronics be more appropriate and familiar to the people checking you out?
Electronics and hardware are the same thing. I'm a hardware engineer and I design electronics. The term hardware could also be used to describe things like nuts and bolts but but that isn't a common usage in engineering.
So is the guy I'm working with but he is a couple of layers above the transistors...more into FPGA/Systems/Logic CAD.
I understand your point; only wondering why use 'hardware' and not 'electronics' - from a business development perspective. Perhaps it points to future plans.
We real hardware people don't take too kindly to FPGA types declaring themselves to be hardware people. They're really only initializing a stinkin' big pile of look-up tables anyway.
You get to be hardware when you use a soldering iron :P
We are using hardware because we are trying to enable making. Electronics is really near to our hearts, and a really big part of the way that we "make", so this is where we are starting.
Good job!