On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 00:20, Doug MacFarlane wrote: > > To my most-helpful net community: > > I'm looking for open-source alternatives to HighWire (DOS) and PowerPCB (WinDoze) > that will run on Debian GNU/Linux. These are programs for designing circuit > boards. > > Google turned up this index, but it's from Sept. 1999: > > http://www.rdrop.com/~cary/mirror/tools_htmlized.html > > Also, if anyone has any experience with any of these for basic (4-6 layer, > device-control) pcb design, I'd love to hear about it. > > Thanks > > madmac > > > -- > Doug MacFarlane > madmac@covad.net A quick 'apt-cache search circuit' reports: acs - Al's Circuit Simulator -- dummy package chipmunk-log - a circuit schematic capture tool and simulation environment. electric - electrical CAD system gnucap - GNU Circuit Analysis package. gpsim - Simulator for Microchip's PIC microcontrollers gtkwave - a VCD (Value Change Dump) file waveform viewer oregano - GNOME application for schematic capture of electrical circuits pcb - Printed Circuit Board Design Program gael - Gnome application for electrical circuits gerbv - Gerber file viewer for PCB design ksimus - KDE tool for simulating electrical circuits tkgate - Event driven digital circuit simulator with Tcl/Tk xcircuit - Draw circuit schematics or almost anything. circ-tex - LaTeX macros to typeset circuit & optics diagrams. as well as a number of others that aren't apparently involved with circuit boards. I don't know which are only in testing or unstable, but would any of those meet your needs? -- Mark L. Kahnt, FLMI/M, ALHC, HIA, AIAA, ACS, MHP ML Kahnt New Markets Consulting Tel: (613) 531-8684 / (613) 539-0935 Email: kahnt@hosehead.dyndns.org
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