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PC Board Design With Unix?

Posted by Cliff on from the computers-aided-board-design dept.

BORRIS asks: "I work for an engineering research firm and I am trying to get our current NT network replaced by Linux. We already have Linux servers and all that stands between me and Nirvana is the collection of the NT Workstations. Most people here use StarOffice now which is good, but the Electronics Division designs their PC Boards on an old program called Tango. Does anybody know of a good replacement for Tango that's written for Linux?" As far as I can determine, Tango was a DOS-based PCB design program that has since been replaced by a program called P-CAD 2000, which is (still) a Win32-only program.

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  1. Innoveda ViewLogic? by BitMan · · Score: 2

    I work for a fabless semiconductor design firm and we are almost entirely UNIX-based. We use Innoveda ViewLogic (see products associated with ViewDraw) for our schematic capture. At my previous employer, an aerospace firm, we also used ViewLogic for PCB Layout.

    The only kicker is that ViewLogic is expensive for the UNIX version. As such, even we run the Windows version on some. But everything else, our Cadence, Mentor Graphics, Modeltech and Synopsys tools all run on either Solaris or, increasingly, Linux (as more and more vendors offer then).

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  2. Perhaps Mentor Graphics? by Freshly+Exhumed · · Score: 2

    Mentor (torMentor to some!) has ported several of their IC and PCB tools to Red Hat Linux 6.0 over the last two years, so perhaps they might be a place to start: http://www.mentorgraphics.com.

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  3. tango by daniel2000 · · Score: 2

    if tango is a dos app then it will *probably* be very well supported in emulation using dosemu or another dos emulator under linux - then no one has to learn new stuff...

  4. Try Eagle by kju · · Score: 3

    Never heard of eagle? I thought it was an very successfull pcb design software. As far as i know it has all the features a decent software package for pcb design needs.

    They have linux versions available for years now, you can download a free or lite version for tryout as well as tons of component libraries from their webpage. See http://www.cadsoft.de