Application Description
1. ExpressPCB Express PCB is a snap to
learn and use. Laying out
PCBs is easy, even for the
first time user.
2. PCB-Printed PCB is an interactive printed
Circuit Board circuit board editor for Unix,
Editor Linux, Windows, and Mac
systems.
3. Spice It is a program used in
integrated circuit and board-
level design to check the
integrity of circuit designs
and to predict circuit
behavior.
4. Cadstar It provides engineers with a
tool for designing simple or
complex, multilayer PCBs
5. gEDA gEDA is a software that runs
on Linux and includes a suite
of free software applications
that help with every part of
the design of the PCB
6. ZentPCB Zenit PCB is another useful
software that can help you to
design printed circuit boards
Availability Advantage(s)
Tools are simple and
unencumbered by multiple layers of
menus, options and settings more
advanced PCB Design suites
require mastering before you even
start on your design project.
PCB offers high end features
such as an auto router and trace
optimizer which can tremendously
reduce layout time
It contained the analyses and
models needed to design
integrated circuits of the time, and
was robust enough and fast
enough to be practical to use.
Currently, the gEDA project offers
a mature suite of free software
applications for electronics
design, including schematic
capture, attribute management,
bill of materials (BOM) generation.
Zenit PCB is a flexible easy to use
CAD program, which allow you to
realize your projects in a short
time
Disadvantage(s)
Primitive mechanical design
capability. Creating irregular
board outline can be
challenging if not impossible.
SPICE is not the best
predictor of component
failures.
The project manager geda
is out of date, and needs an
update.
If you try Zenit PCB you will
see that the software is
almost perfect , some useful
features like :auto place
component and auto router
are missing .
7. Simulide It's intended for general
purpose electronics and
microcontroller simulation,
supporting PIC and AVR.
8. Blender Blender is a professional free
and open-source 3D
computer graphics software
product.
9. Google SketchUp is 3D modeling
SketchUp software that's easy to learn
and incredibly fun to use.
10. LibreCAD A 3D modeling computer
program for a wide range of
drawing applications such as
architectural, interior design,
landscape architecture, civil
and mechanical engineering
11. Logicly Logicly helps you teach logic
gates and digital circuits
effectively.
12. Dip Trace An EDA/CAD software for
creating schematic diagrams
and printed circuit boards.
13. Sprint Layout Sprint-Layout offers all
needed and many helpful
functions to design your own
layouts.
It aims to be the fast, simple and This is not an accurate
easy to use, so this means simple simulator for circuit analysis
and not very accurate electronic
models and limited features.
Blender's features include 3D Blender can be used for
modeling, UV unwrapping, engineering, but it's not
texturing, raster graphics editing, designed for it
rigging and skinning.
It is free. It's limited to modelling and
texturing. Rendering
capabilities and proper
animation/rigging capabilities
has to be added through
plugins which may cost loads
of money.
LibreCAD is a fully
comprehensive 2D CAD
application that you can download
and install for free.
Design circuits quickly and easily
with a modern and intuitive user
interface with drag-and-drop,
copy/paste, zoom & more.
DipTrace is EDA/CAD software
for creating schematic diagrams
and printed circuit boards.
There is no unnecessary ballast
which makes it difficult to keep the
overview or which makes the
usage almost impossible.
14. FreePCB A simpler version of CAD
software for free.
15. XCIRCUIT XCircuit is a UNIX/X11 (and XCircuit is flexible enough to be
Windows, or Windows using used as a generic program for
Cygwin and the Cygwin X- drawing just about anything, and
Server) program for drawing is competitive with powerful
publishable-quality electrical programs such as "xfig".
circuit schematic diagrams
and related figures, and
produce circuit netlists
through schematic capture