Are you an Electrical Engineer or someone who likes to designing electrical circuit boards? and then You are looking for a Open Source Software (OSS) CAD software to do it. Try this OSS Software - Electric. Although it doesn’t have the most modern looking GUI – what electrical engineer really cares about how “modern looking” a GUI is? – Electric offers a lot of features and will serve you well in your designs.
I was tried on my ubuntu linux 10.10. Now, it’s time for you.
Features
- Design rule checking
- Electrical rule checking
- Simulation and simulation interface (many options)
- Generation (ROMs, PLAs, Pad Frames, etc.)
- Compaction
- Routing
- VHDL compilation
- Silicon compilation
- Network consistency checking (LVS)
- Logical Effort analysis
- Project Management
Design types
- MOS (many CMOS and nMOS variations)
- Bipolar and BiCMOS
- Schematics and printed circuits
- Digital filters, Temporal logic
- Artwork
Supported file formats
- CIF I/O
- GDS I/O
- EDIF I/O
- DXF I/O
- SUE Input
- VHDL I/O
- Verilog Output
- EAGLE, PADS, and ECAD Output
- PostScript, HPGL, and PNG output
Follow these simple steps for installation:
- Open up the Ubuntu Software Center.
- Search for “electric” (no quotes).
- Click the Install button.
- Type your sudo password and hit Enter.
- Let the installation finish.
Upon completing the installation you will find a new sub-menu in your Applications menu – Education. In this menu you can click the Electric entry to start the program.
From the list of elements you will find most of the standards such as: Transistors, resistors, grounds, power, Capacitor, Global-Signal, Inductor, And, Or, Buffer, and much more.
Download Electric CAD Software for Linux
For Electric User Manual, go to here.
