this post was submitted on 28 Apr 2026
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[–] JakenVeina@midwest.social 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

this is no different than one of our chip designers who says, guess what, I’m just going to use paper and pencil, I don’t think I’m going to need any CAD tools.

Lol, dude thinks chip designers don't use pen and paper, whenever possible?

[–] diz@awful.systems 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

How much does he think an engineer spends on CAD tools, anyway? Altium is like, what, $2500 / year? Very "how much can a banana cost".

It's all capital costs for tools, pretty much, anyway, maybe CAD should start charging per net lmao.