A review of electronic engineering design free software tools

Author

Medrano, C. ; Plaza, I. ; Castro, M. ; García-Sevilla, F. ; Martínez-Calero, J.D. ; Felix, Josep Pou ; Corbalán, M.

Author_Institution

EduQTech, EUPT, Teruel, Spain

fYear

2010

fDate

14-16 April 2010

Firstpage

1867

Lastpage

1871

Abstract

In this paper, we review electronic design free software tools. We have searched open source programs that help with several tasks of the electronic design flow: analog and digital simulation, schematic capture, printed circuit board design and hardware description language compilation and simulation. Using some rapid criteria for verifying their availability, we have selected some of them which are worth working with. This work intends to perform a deeper analysis of free software tools and select some of them to use in education or in professional electronic design.

Keywords

electronic design automation; public domain software; software tools; electronic design flow; electronic engineering design; free software tools; open source programs; Circuit simulation; Computer languages; Design engineering; Digital simulation; Hardware design languages; Printed circuits; Software design; Software tools; State feedback; Testing; electronic design; evaluation; free software; quality;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Education Engineering (EDUCON), 2010 IEEE

Conference_Location

Madrid

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6568-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-6570-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EDUCON.2010.5492430

Filename

5492430