Stratford Digital Recognized as Valued CadSoft EAGLE Partner, Distributor, and Design House

PRLog (Press Release) - Dec. 12, 2011 - CadSoft is pleased to recognize Stratford Digital as a highly valued partner and distributor of EAGLE.  "Stratford Digital has invested an unprecedented amount of time and effort into EAGLE and we're continually grateful for their effort.  Besides being the first North American distributor to offer online sales of licenses they also offer custom tools, training, and design services for many of our EAGLE customers." says Ed Robledo, GM of CadSoft's North American office.  "The free web-interface that they maintain at www.eaglecentral.ca/forums provides a great service to the EAGLE community."

"As an electronic design services bureau we needed a tool to design embedded systems for our wide range of clients," says James Morrison of Stratford Digital.  "We needed something that was fully capable for all kinds of designs.  But we also needed a tool that would not burden our clients with an extraordinary licensing cost.  If our clients need to simply change a resistor value then it's a rude awakening if the license cost for the CAD tool is greater than the cost of the entire design in the first place.  So we found EAGLE to  be a great fit.  And the simple interface is a bonus since many of our clients only use the tool periodically and the learning curve is much less than other, more complicated CAD tools."

Morrison continues, "We liked EAGLE so much that we jumped at the chance to become a distributor.  And now we're excited to see the added value that the imminent release of EAGLE V6 will add for our clients."

EAGLE V6 is a professional-grade CAD tool for electronic designers.  It is fully functional on Windows, Linux, and Mac platforms with files being completely interchangeable.  A fair licensing model and reasonable cost make EAGLE 6 a great value for all kinds of companies.  The value is further enhanced by free lifetime support and no annual maintenance costs.

EAGLE V6 is in beta testing right now and will be released in the near future.  New features include:

 1) differential trace routing
 2) copy and paste repeated layout channels
 3) ]XML file format
 4) dimensioning tool
 5) arbitrary shaped pads in footprints
 6) and much more

For more information go to EAGLE Central (http://www.eaglecentral.ca/).

About Stratford Digital ::

Stratford Digital provides professional electronic design services (EDS) and product development including mixed-signal circuit design, schematic capture, PCB layout, programmable logic, embedded processors, firmware, RTOS, embedded linux, etc.

Stratford Digital is also an authorized distributor of CadSoft EAGLE CAD software. EAGLE V6 is a low-cost professional grade CAD tool with reasonable licensing cost, free lifetime support, and no annual maintenance costs. More info at www.eaglecentral.ca.

About CadSoft ::

CadSoft Computer GmbH and CadSoft Inc. are part of Premier Farnell plc., one of the world's leading distributors of electronic components, products and services..CadSoft specializes in the development of the popular CAD-Software EAGLE used by design engineers worldwide for over 20 years. EAGLE is a user-friendly, powerful and affordable software for efficient circuit board design (PCB design) and combines the modules schematic editor, layout editor and autorouter on one single interface. Shared Open Source User Language Programs (ULPs) guarantee maximum flexibility by enabling various features, such as simulation, realization of individual instruction sequences, data export and import.  DesignLink feature provides access to data and prices on over 4 million products from Newark, Farnell and element 14. EAGLE users benefit from free support through dedicated experts, active customer forums, the EAGLE community on  element 14, webinars and training on demand. EAGLE is available for Linux®, Mac® and Windows®.