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gEDA (GPL'ed Electronic Design) In EE Times

Posted by timothy on from the beyond-world-domination dept.

Stuart Brorson writes "At long last, today's EE Times published an article about the gEDA project. The gEDA project has developed a mature, GPL'd, Linux-based suite of tools useful for electronic design. Using the gEDA tools, you can take a circuit design from schematic capture, through simulation, to PC board layout and fab. Some example PCBs done using gEDA include the Darrell Harmon's single board computer, and the 'free hardware' Ronja Project. Happily, the advantages of open-source for electronics design were well presented in the article. It's good to see that gEDA is getting some well-deserved press for the excellent work which has been going on from over six years now!"

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  1. Re:VHDL + FPGA by russh347 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Last time I looked, gEDA had no support for VHDL. There is a GHDL project that is sort of useful, for simulation only. For FPGA synthesis, you're pretty much stuck with the Xilinx (or other commercial) tools. Xilinx webpack is available for free (though it's limited), and I've heard that the command line utilities can be made to run under wine. There are also linux versions of the tools, but I don't know if they have the same availability as Webpack.

  2. Re:gEDA is still lacking a PCB editor... by dj.delorie · · Score: 5, Informative
    PCB seems to be powerful, but i simply cannot get accostumed to it's interface.

    As one of the few people actively working on PCB, I can only say this: If you don't tell us what you don't like, we can't make it better. As with all open software, YOU the user are an important part of the development process, even if all you do is [constructively] complain.

    Recently, I added user-customizable menus. Have you tried changing the UI to do what YOU want? That's why I added it.