We have used gEDA for our Cortex-M3 based designs. The schematic is completely in gEDA. However, for layout we had to use commercial tool for the size required.
gEDA works like a charm and I could not but smile when I could even 'make' my schematics. :-)) If any of the members have been able to exploit layout with open-source tools for >2 layers please let me know, I'd love to share some notes. -Akshay Principal Engineer, DSPWorks, www.dspworks.in On 27 April 2011 12:39, Linux <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello List, > > For electronics engineers, when using open source EDA tools, > one of big challenge is component schematic symbols. > If you are creating symbol for component with more than 100 pins, > it becomes very time consuming and challenging to create error free > symbols. > Here is a simple program to create symbols for open source EDA kicad. > The idea is to describe symbol in .csv format and convert .csv to schematic > symbol. > At preset program supports Kicad only, but we as a community can expand > the program to include as many EDAs(free/commercial) as we can. So that > manufactures may start distributing .csv files for their components. > Hence I request, if you know Java, have time and know some symbol formats, > please contribute. > > The link to program is > http://sourceforge.net/projects/csvtokicad/ > http://mac.softpedia.com/get/Utilities/CsvToKicad.shtml > > Thank you. > > Best Regards > Balwinder Singh > -- > http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers > -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
