Is there a truly integrated schematic and board design package?
Is there an EDA package that combines both schematic and board on the screen at the same time?
Traditionally, we capture the schematic first, then do some manipulation to convert it to a board. With packages like KiCad and gEDA, if you want to change something about the design, you start from the beginning of the pipeline, edit the schematic, then update the board after the modification. With a package like EAGLE, there is an annotation connection, so you can change some things in the board and they will propagate back to the schematic, as long as you have both schematic and board open at the same time.
Seems as it might be a good thing to really embrace the idea and have both schematic and board open at the same time, all the time, and have all changes anywhere propagate throughout both schematic and board.
Am I missing something?
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