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Re: [AVR-Chat] OT: Design Tools for Linux

2005-03-29 by David D. Rea

I have used Eagle for past projects, and had a very good experience.

Most notable among them was (coincidentally enough) an AVR board for a
class I took during my undergrad work. I sat down at 7PM and started
designing the circuit. By 10PM, I was on to laying out the board. By
6AM, I had the board laid out, gerbers generated, fab notes completed
and the whole shebang FTP'd off to my PCB fabricator.

This was a relatively simple board; 2 layers with mixed analog and
digital, but the time involved included building some custom schematic
symbols and footprints.

Haven't used gEDA ... yet. But since I'm working on starting a new
business and our budget is so small that we can't even afford Windows
licenses - let alone an expensive EDA package - you can bet I'll be
trying it soon!

Dave

On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 00:32 +0200, Andreas Stemmer wrote:
> Hi,
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> a little OT question: what tools do the Linux users on this mailing list
> use to design their electronic circuits? I primarily need something for
> drawing schematics, but simulation facilities would be nice as well. I
> had a short look at Eagle and then found gEDA. Does anyone have
> experiences with one of those or both?
> 
> Thank you,
> Andreas
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