In turn, our many resellers have their own backlogs, which they fulfil when they receive stock from us. 'As we’ve said before, the current situation is as much a demand shock as a supply shock: demand for Raspberry Pi products increased sharply from the start of 2021 onwards, and supply constraints have prevented us from flexing up to meet this demand, with the result that we now have significant order backlogs for almost all products. Cadence is offering deals that even serious hobbyists can afford, while Altium Designer has priced itself outrageously and denied themselves the small business startup audience.This is the official statement of the Raspberry Pi Foundation on this topic: I honestly can't understand how Altium can justify such a price structure. So that Altium flaw is a deal breaker for me. All the source files are compatible across all version, just the feature use is limited to the particular license on the computer that you are using at the time. That is ONE BIG advantage to ORCAD/ALLEGRO. Since many of my contract projects will begin with projects that are already started in Designer, Circuit Studio does me no good. Then I found out that the project files are incompatible and anything created in Designer could not be modified in CS. Designer was acceptable to me.I don't need all the features just like I don't need all the high end Allegro features. Even though it's not full Altium Designer, the CS feature list vs.

When I saw that Altium had a low cost Circuit Studio deal, I got pretty excited. WAY too much for a one person side shop like me. However, the price I was quoted was absolutely OUTRAGEOUS, $9650. I would absolutely LOVE to get a seat of Altium Designer also, because that would open me up to supporting companies who use Altium internally and I personally like the Altium flow and GUI better than Cadence tools. I prefer dongles so I can install on multiple computers and just use one (two) at a time with the dongles. Two seats for about $1200 perpetual licenses including dongles with optional maintenance. To get started, I purchased 2 seats of Orcad/Allegro for an amazingly low cost.

Although Eagle and KiCad are fine products, the industry just doesn't take them seriously. So lets face it in the industry, there are two major players now, Altium and Cadence. I have a side company that I started to do side work developing circuits, laying out boards and optionally delivering products. My reason for not moving to Circuit Studio.

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