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TINA vs. EAGLE

Petar Aladrovic
Prodigy 110 points

Hello,

I am about to try to make my first prototype. I have selected elements, have a little bit of code and now I would like to "produce" it. I would appreciate from more experienced colleagues if they would give pro and contra TINA and EAGLE. If I understood correctly TINA is a product of TI, or ? I got an EAGLE files as I have bought few Ti products

 

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    Guru 227245 points

    I don't know TINA, but I work with EAGLE every day.

    While Eagle (even in the latest version) still has some problems with certain specific things (such as internally connected pins and many others) it is a good tools from small to complex tasks.
    It is free for personal use (limited to 100x60mm board size and two layers and one schematic sheet) and the best is, you can just pass the eagle board file to most PCB manufacturers and you will get your PCB done properly. If you want, complete with solder resist and placing print.

    Most other programs I heard of are producing Gerber files (Eagle can too), which you cannot check wihtout additional expensive tools. And which will often, if you're not experienced with this program, will result in a bad PCB (not the manufacturers fault then).

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    Prodigy 50 points

    To the best of my knowledge TINA is not from a TI company.  TI licensed the spice simulation and schematic capture software to give an easy way simulate analog circuits using TI parts.  TINATI is free, but not a full board design software. It only allows use of TI parts (though there are actually workarounds that will let you bring in other companies parts)  and handles just the schematic/simulation portion of the design process..   Disignware Inc. which makes TINA  has a whole design suite, but will cost anywhere from $450-$1200 depending on what kind of user you are.

  • 0 in reply to dilbertclone
    Expert 1710 points
    Yes, TINA isn't for PCB design. You should look at the comparitive virtues of eagle, designspark, kicad (runs on MS windows or LINUX / UNIX), or the GEDA tool set which runs under LINUX/UNIX though maybe there are other versions too.

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