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That is a very cool tool. Not to complain too much, but the first design I tried was a simple differential amp (current source, diff pair, current mirror), and the lack of a "mirror part" control ended up making for pretty sloppy layout (although the auto-route to avoid labels stuff is pretty neat).

Good job!

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Hi Tony, is this your circuit http://upverter.com/tonyarkles/fc405a95ad5ac85c/basic-amp/ ? I see the Q1/Q2 current mirror. The rest doesn't look quite finished here, but perhaps I'm not seeing the right revision. Curious to know if you were trying to draw it from memory/intuition, or trying to put an existing schematic into the tool?

Hi! Yes, that's the one. It certainly isn't finished, and yes, I was drawing it from memory just to get a feel for the tool.

Thanks tonyarkles, we thought that doing a rotate twice would solve that, but with op-amps a mirror might look better, I will add it to our to-do list.

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