PADS PCB Design Software

What do you like best?

Routing and error free design as it does not allow any changes without the flow we follow for PCB. It has a specialized router which makes routing easier and faster with advanced options. Its layer stack-up design using hyperlynx is good.

it does not allow any directly change in pcb without ECO or by entering in ECO mode.

What do you dislike?

Less user friendly, so it difficult for any new joiner to learn, it will take time initially to learn. Also need to create part separately , logic decal as well as pcb decal, you cannot assign any footprint directly to any sch part, need to change in library part first. Polygon creation for layers is not much impressive. Pads stack is not that good, as we have to add soldermask and past for every component, there is not option to derive it from rules in component setup in library.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

4 stars. It is strongly recommended in case you have a good time to learn and want to have a error free design.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

PCB design of small to high speed complex designs. It is more error free as compared to other tools. Routing signals is easy with multiple short cut commands. impedance requirement using hyperlnx.