PCB design software vendors CadSoft Computer (e complex written following company) have made a set of global PCB designer survey data to celebrate its 25th anniversary. Since it was founded in 1988, CadSoft witnessed the development of the electronics industry revolution, one of the most significant is rising in recent years, online trade community and social media. Research according to CadSoft survey showed that 83% of respondents said the online trade community is very important to their work ' 'or' important ', although nearly half (41%) are not active in the community platform.
In addition, 42% of research object that Twitter and Facebook and other social media platforms like BBS, news, product design Suggestions are gathered and creative resources, such as beneficial to their design process. Also about 36% of the research object, however, hold that social platforms without any value and filled with all sorts of useless junk.
"said Mr CadSoft Computer managing director Thomas Liratsch 25 years ago, there is no so many online BBS for PCB design engineers and social media platforms. It is clear that the vast majority of people now have found that the effect of these platforms, however, with its great potential role is a disproportionate share of the limited number of users. Online communities such as e complex au community for contemporary PCB designer is still an untapped resources. Almost from the beginning of establishment, passed its exclusive support BBS and EAGLE CadSoft user interaction actively, to provide them with an answering questions and put forward the platform of software improvements, by users praise."
Mr Thomas Liratsch also said: "some may deny social media platforms such as Twitter because of the lack of adequate understanding, they don't know how to filter irrelevant and limit the content of the information source, thereby locking really influential key figures and like-minded peers. Twitter is not just a teenage leisure and popular culture of people to share platform."
Other key findings include:
Nearly two-thirds of research object (64%) think development board to reduce the demand for custom PCB design
Three-quarters of the research object (74%) of the ongoing control system application design, and nearly half (46%), using the open source hardware
Most designers priority when purchasing design tool is rather than cost function, and 60% think functional research object is "extremely important" a factor
E complex au vote for PCB designer is selected the most popular online BBS
87% of the research object is the most expected CadSoft Eagle new version upgrade features include: a better library management and parts more quickly create function
Most of the research object (30%) per year on average for 1 to 3 new design or design update, 24% of more than 10 research object
CadSoft America area general manager Ed Robledo said: "according to a survey, a surge of development board to reduce the demand for custom PCB design, this is a great opportunity for us, more and more development board design USES our CadSoft. No matter how the field of electronic design and developing, some core requirements such as availability is still vital, the advantage of this has been CadSoft. CadSoft can provide functional software engineers to optimize productivity."
This research was conducted in the October of 2013, research object, including professional engineers from 42 countries. You can through the SlideShare see the full results.
Over the past 25 years, CadSoft EAGLE has been at low prices for global design engineers and expensive commercial PCB design software of the same core functionality. By putting the principle diagram editor, the layout editor and automatically wiring of three modules are integrated into a single user interface, EAGLE for designers to provide a powerful software development environment to human, to promote efficient PCB design. EAGLE can be compatible with Windows, Linux, Mac and supporting files free exchange. With its flexible mode of authorization, EAGLE version 6 can meet the professional design, education, and the application in various fields such as personal user requirements (whether experienced or not), and provide great value.
