Welcome to the Pantheon forum

[randychase]

Please use this forum for Pantheon related questions,.
Thanks!

[phillipr]

Randy

Can you explain, a little bit more in depth, what Pantheon is?

[randychase]

Panthon is the name of the software. The company is called Intercept http://www.intercept.com/


It looks like an interesting and capable product. Intercept has released a series of translators for PADS users to migrate. Not that I would suggest doing that, but it makes translations from PADS a lot easier.

I did some research with little success trying to determine the size of the Pantheon userbase.

[Skip Yutkus]

Pantheon was originally developed to be a more user friendly interface for Mentor Board Station and bears an uncanny resemblance to the Board Station interface, after the purchase of VeriBest Mentor cancelled the project with Intercept so they are now selling it as a standalone product, I've only seen it once and the thing that impressed me the most was the translation interfaces available. I would imagine that the user base is small - the interesting part of this is that Pantheon might provide a path to BoardStation for the libraries.

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[Tom]

Intercept - http://www.intercept.com/ bought out Scicards/Xynetix a few years ago and have been transferring their customers over to their Pantheon package. Xynetix if they are still around, wanted to focus on MCM packaging, (I guess they figured they could sell their product for more money, but have a smaller market.) I do know Scicards moved most of their employees over to Intercept.

[patrick_kennedy]

I've been using pantheon for the last 8 years.
been using mentor since version 7
and pads since version 1
before that i used p870
and before that it was applicon
ask me anything.

[Thomas Ligotti]

Please answer the question which is best. I'm looking to migrate to Pantheon from Board Station. I'm not sure if Expedition is a better solution though. What is your insight.

[patrick_kennedy]

the last time I looked at exsp it lacked drafting tools and
wasn't as complete of a tool as boardstaion is.
pantheon reads and writes many cad formats.
it also is a very good gerber drc tool for any cad output.
I've got 3 designers working for me using board station re and
myself and another designer use pantheon.
I drc all boards fab data prior to being released.
pantheon is alot more flexible than board station.
it's like librarian,layout,fablink,cam,rf and bs 500 in 1.
they're going to have to pry it from my cold clammy fingers
if you know what i mean.
there's alot of things pantheon can do that you pay way more
in mentor to do.
last time i checked a full up pantheon with all the bells was
$35,000.

[Thomas Ligotti]

True. Pantheon Full seat is $35,000. How do like AutoActive?
We can't seem to get AutoActive to route as good as Specctra.
Is AA better than Specctra? It might be that I'm just not experienced enough in AA. We currently have 5 seats of BS with AA Interactive. We need to move forward. Mentor's policies bother me. Motto - "Don't fix it, just buy a company that can do it better". Then they screw up an existing tool to try to include better features.

Pantheon seems to be the perfect solution. There just isn't enough people with real good insight. The user base is small and there just isn't enough people to talk to. Any kind of information you can give me regarding this tool and your migration over to it would be great. Did you lose any data going from one to the other? Do you also use Mozaix or did you stick with DA?

What is wrong with Expedtion?

Thanks

[patrick_kennedy]

auto active is very good at diff pairs and matched length hs design.
it is a new router and does take some time to get used to.
it requires alot less cleanup than cct.
it realy is more interactive than auto active LOL.
pads with blaze router is a very cost effective solution also.
i'm pretty used to stroke commands and prefer pantheon or
board station.
i've used orcad layout also about 3 years ago i did some boards
for a company and they insisted they be done on orcad.
later i talked them into pads.

[Thomas Ligotti]

Have you ever converted any jobs from Board Station to Expedition? Right now Mentor wants to do the translations. For a fee no doubt. There's a surprise. LOL. I've heard alot of good things about PADS, but there no easy path from Board Station to PADS. All my legacy data will be lost. Pantheon really seems to be the best answer other than Board Station RE. I've very different results with areafills when going back and forth between BS and RE. If you had to make a choice between CCT or AutoActive, which would you choose.

Thanks

[patrick_kennedy]

I'll probably never buy into exspedition don't like the tool
for the money pads is better.
pantheon is my choice for every day work.
I bought pads back in 86 when it was v1.0 on dos LOL.
Pantheon is realy the most flexible and able tool out there.
there again cct has more interfaces to it than re.
if i didn't already have board station i wouldn't have bought
into re.
the full up hs re routers were cheaper to upgrade to than
upgrading the old v7 cct that we had.
cct works if your used to it and don't mind cleanup.
pantheon and a cct or a zuken router would be my choice.
on the low buget side pads and blaze router works also.
just depends on your budget.

[Thomas Ligotti]

What do you use for Schematic Capture with Pantheon?
Moziax or DA. What insight can you give me on these tools?

Thanks, for all your help.

[patrick_kennedy]

we use da and ba.
i do know other companies that use just pantheon and mozaix.

[Skip Yutkus]

You can input an Orcad netlist into Board Station, the problem is the comps file the one that Orcad outputs will not match your geoms, I Imagine you could do the same with Pantheon, this should be revealing for most the people on this forum they probably all think that all PCB packages accept netlists easily.

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[rkv]

Hi all,

I am new to pantheon tool. Before I have used allegro and pads.

I have a question regarding importing (copying) the traces. Is it possible to import traces, vias etc from old design in pantheon and how to do it.

Thanks in advance.

RKV

[Adeline]

Hi to all,

I recently join a new company who is using Pantheon and Mozaix.

I had been trying to search for pantheon user forum but no luck until now.

Hope to learn more thing from exisiting pantheon user :D

[sivart]

Hi all,

I am new to pantheon tool. Before I have used allegro and pads.

I have a question regarding importing (copying) the traces. Is it possible to import traces, vias etc from old design in pantheon and how to do it.

Thanks in advance.

RKV
rkv,
To copy traces and vias from one design to another you can use the copy section command. (Edit menu >> design >> section >> write. ) it will copy any traces, vias, and components that you have selected. There is a catch, for each net that you copy you must have a component that contains at least one pin of the net on it or else the traces and vias will not copy.

Sivart!

[metal-domes]

i don't hear that other companies that use just pantheon and mozaix.