Schematic/Layout tool

Development tool KiCAD

I want to use KiCad for schematic and PCB design. My decision are based the following fact:

 

  • widely used in the community of electronics for small and complex PCB's
  • licensed under GPL Version 3
  • a huge database of symbols and footprints
  • very power full schematic entry
  • no restrictions on PCB desgin (unlimited Layers and Components)
  • some Signal Integrity features like (diffpair, length matching)
  • very good GUI for PCB and schematic entry

Currently i'm working with Cadence, which is a professional EDA system but the KiCAD hase a lot of functions which are available inside such a professional EDA System. When you are comming from a System like Mentor, OrCAD or ther EDA tools its very easy to learn the KiCad world.

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