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Fellow Sr.EE currently pivoting in to SW. The core problem with our fields(EE/ME) is that our resp tools vendors are set in the old ways of building shipping an
by ultrasounder 7y ago
Fellow Sr.EE currently pivoting in to SW. The core problem with our fields(EE/ME) is that our resp tools vendors are set in the old ways of building shipping and supporting the tolls that are fundamental to our jobs. No open APIs to customize the functionality, modify the GUI or extend it to Automate( wouldn’t you love to automate updates to the CIS database every time one of your colleague adds a new component to it?.I mean the basic infrastructure is there but just no motivation as they know that their core user base is not really growing and doesn’t mind putting up with this crap. Hence all valid open source efforts like KiCAD have been sparrow fart. No real dent. But SW industry is driven by innovation that’s happening in the FOSS domain. Even the mighty MSFT and APPL have to a certain extend embraced OSS. It’s not in the best interests of cadence and Solidworks to do that. Because the market size for their tools is minute compared to say Visualstudio code which is free and is highly customizable.