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Electronic Design Products from Capilano Computing

This chart summarizes our electronic design software products.

 

DesignWorks Professional

DesignWorks Express

LogicWorks

General Description

DesignWorks Professional is your best choice for productive and easy-to-use electronic circuit schematic drawing tools in professional applications. Features full hierarchical design, standard and custom netlist formats, extensive symbol libraries and much more  ... more info ... PowerPC and Intel Mac version .. place an order

DesignWorks Express schematic capture is intended for hobbyists or occasional users who need to draw simple, single page schematic diagrams. You can also interface directly with Pad2Pad, the free PCB design software from Pad2Pad.com DesignWorks Express is completely free, making it an unbeatable tool for creating clean, professional diagrams.  Includes basic symbol libraries, sample designs and on-line documentation ... more info ...

LogicWorks is the educational version of DesignWorks, giving students powerful schematic design and digital simulation capabilities at low cost.  It is sold in book form exclusively by Prentice Hall Publishing ...   more info

Target User

Design professionals that need full, production-oriented schematic capture capability, anyone needing extensive customization for special applications

Hobbyists or occasional users needing to draw full-quality, single-page schematic diagrams and small PCBs. DesignWorks Express can also be used as a free viewer for DesignWorks Professional files.

Teachers and students of digital logic design.

Price (US dollars)

$395 by download, $495 with printed manual & CD, full pricing

FREE!!! (Requires free registration after 30 days).

About $90 through book vendors such as Amazon.com

Printed manual & CD

Optional

Not available

Yes

Free updates by download

Yes, click here for downloads

Yes, click here for downloads

Yes, click here for downloads

Free technical support

Yes

Support provided through support community site.

Supported by Prentice Hall Publishing (Windows only).

Free demo downloads

Download free, fully functional evaluation version

Download free, fully functional version

Not available.  Instructors can request a complimentary evaluation copy from their Prentice Hall representative.

How to buy

Click here to place an order

It’s free!!! Package must be registered for free after 30-days to continue using.

Windows Version: LogicWorks for Windows is sold exclusively by Prentice Hall Publishing, we do not sell it directly.  It can be purchased online through amazon.com or through bookstores.  More ordering info...
Macintosh Version: LogicWorks for Macintosh can be purchased directly from us. Click here for ordering info...

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Digital simulation

Optional

No

Included

Hierarchy features

Full

No

Limited

User-defined attributes

Yes

Yes

No

Multipage schematics

Yes

Multipage schematics created by DesignWorks Professional can be viewed but not edited.

No

Netlist and report generation

Yes, includes many standard formats and custom scripting

Pad2Pad netlist format can be exported.

3 fixed formats: Spice, simple netlist and simple bill of materials  (Windows version only)

Custom menus, design templates, scripting

Yes

No

No

Symbol editor

Yes

Yes

Yes

Search tool

Yes, fully customizable design search

No

No

Spreadsheet browser

Yes, view and edit component attributes in a spreadsheet format

No

No

Symbols included

12,000

500

300

Back annotation

Yes

No

No

Automatic gate packaging

Yes

Yes

No

PDF, DXF & WMF graphics file export

Yes

No

No

Design size limit

No fixed limits

500 pins on a single page for editing, no limit for viewing

No fixed limits

 

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