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Commercial license is $1000/month. How does that compare to other EDA software?
by Zamiel_Snawley 3y ago
Commercial license is $1000/month. How does that compare to other EDA software?
- mattofak 3y agoAltium is about $10k to start and then $2.5k ~ 3.5k per year depending on plan.
- bb88 3y agoMy favorite is the hobbyist youtube videos sponsored by Altium. Just pay 10k plus 2/3k per year afterwards and you too can design boards like I can! (/s) But the reality is I unsubscribed from those creators, because I never want to see someone design a board in Altium, I want to see how they build a board using kicad. From the software side, I really like the license model of the all products pack from JetBrains. And it goes with me wherever I go.
- jrmcauliffe 3y agoYeah, I love the fact that Jetbrains 'everything' is actually affordable by a solo software engineer and you can just 'bring your own tools' to a job.
- spacedcowboy 3y agoAltium is sufficiently good [1] though that for a personal license, you don't really need the yearly updates (which are mainly focused on their core business of large companies anyway). Source: bought permanent license, haven't update it. [1] for example it has a built-in field solver for diff-pair impedance, not the approximations that vary from online tool to online tool
- fxtentacle 3y agoKiCad is free and has a great community, which means lots of projects to download.
- Workaccount2 3y agoAnd lots of people who can provide support. And lots of youtube tutorials.
- sambull 3y agoIt's probably changed, Cadence software used to have a on-site person colocated out at my dad's office just to support it day to day.
- themoonisachees 3y agoCadence is a whole different beast entirely. My job buys something like 20 seats of SPECTRE a year, among other tools, and EDA licenses are our #1 spending item, above workforce.
- hulitu 3y ago> Dedicated to solving difficult problems with huge impact, our first step is to automate circuit board design. I would say it doesn't compare.