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From: abair@oakhill.UUCP (Alan Bair)
Newsgroups: news.groups,comp.lsi.cad,sci.electronics
Subject: Re: CAD/CAM/CAE newsgroup proposal
Summary: Alternate ideas
Message-ID: <1995@turbinia.oakhill.UUCP>
Date: 22 Apr 89 00:59:56 GMT
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Reply-To: abair@turbinia.UUCP (Alan Bair)
Organization: Motorola Inc., Austin Tx.
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In article <10542@rama.UUCP> news@rama.UUCP (Usenet News Admin) writes:
>There seems to be no newsgroups devoted to (or even oriented
>towards electronic design automation issues like printed circuit
>board design, schematic capture, circuit simulation programs,
>etc.  The closest is comp.lsi.cad, which is IC-design specific,
>leaving PCB and hybrid folks out in the cold.
>
>Here's some suggestions to get the ball rolling:
>comp.cad or comp.cadcam - General discussion concerning CAD/CAM/CAE
>comp.cad.pcb - Printed Circuit Board design
>comp.cad.hybrid - Hybrid circuit design
>

If this idea stirs any interest, how about bringing the current group into
the same newsgroup tree. Change comp.lsi.cad into comp.cad.lsi or for more
generality, comp.cad.ic.  Now maybe the proposed comp.cad.hybrid is meant to
cover all of the IC field, which is fine, but the name is then misleading.

If finer divisions are wanted, add subgroups to comp.cad.ic for analog,
digital, hybrid, cmos, etc.  Though from the traffic I have seen in CAD
related groups, this can of group explosion is probably not warranted at 
this time.

Now a type of subdivision that may make more sense would be for schematic,
layout, simulation, etc.

Well enough for now.

Alan Bair
SPS C.A.D.  Austin, Texas
Motorola, Inc.
UUCP cs.utexas.edu!oakhill!turbinia!abair