Electric CAD program on Linux

“If you are an electrical engineer, or someone who likes to
dabble in designing electrical circuit boards (or anything with
regards to electricity) and you’re looking for a FOSS (Free, Open
Source Software) CAD program to aid you in the process, then
Electric might be the solution. 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.

“Let’s take a look at the features Electric offers as well as
the installation and basic usage of the tool.

“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

“Not a bad feature-set for a piece of free CAD software.”

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