P-CAD
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P-CAD is a printed circuit board (a.k.a. PCB
or PWB) computer-aided design
software package. P-CAD was originally developed by Accel Technologies, an EDA
software corporation from San Diego, California, which was acquired by Altium (then Protel International PTY LTD) in 2000. The P-CAD product included schematic capture, component library management, PCB layout and routing, parametric constraint solver and auto-routing capability.
The last version of P-CAD was P-CAD 2006 with Service Pack 2, released in 2006. This was the last release made by Altium, who retired the product in favor of Altium Designer
. This was the final outcome that was originally expected at the time of the merger of Protel with Accel - that the best features of both product lines would eventually be combined.
PCB (software)
PCB is an open source software suite for electronic design automation - for printed circuit boards layout.-History:PCB was not the first written by Thomas Nau for an Atari ST in 1990 and ported to UNIX and X11 in 1994...
or PWB) computer-aided design
Computer-aided design
Computer-aided design , also known as computer-aided design and drafting , is the use of computer technology for the process of design and design-documentation. Computer Aided Drafting describes the process of drafting with a computer...
software package. P-CAD was originally developed by Accel Technologies, an EDA
EDA
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software corporation from San Diego, California, which was acquired by Altium (then Protel International PTY LTD) in 2000. The P-CAD product included schematic capture, component library management, PCB layout and routing, parametric constraint solver and auto-routing capability.
The last version of P-CAD was P-CAD 2006 with Service Pack 2, released in 2006. This was the last release made by Altium, who retired the product in favor of Altium Designer
Altium Designer
Altium Designer is an EDA software package for printed circuit board, FPGA and embedded software design, and associated library and release management automation...
. This was the final outcome that was originally expected at the time of the merger of Protel with Accel - that the best features of both product lines would eventually be combined.