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gEDA Links
The gEDA project has produced and continues working on a full GPL'd suite of Electronic Design Automation tools. These tools are used for electrical circuit design, schematic capture, simulation, prototyping, and production. The gEDA project was started because of the lack of free EDA tools for UNIX. The tools are being developed mainly on GNU/Linux machines, but considerable effort is being made to make sure that gEDA runs on other UNIX variants. For a complete list of freely available tools please be sure to visit Open Collector
Please e-mail me (ahvezda AT seul.org) if you want your link/project added here.
Directly related links
Open Collector -- The database for open hardware tools/designs
Boston's Free Electronic Design Automation Users Group (FreeEDAUG)
The gEDA project's symbol / footprint / tool upload and sharing site
SDB's advanced SPICE netlister Homepage (now part of gEDA/gaf)
DJ Delorie's HobbyPlatform EDA Tools page
John Luciani's page on gEDA, gsch2pcb, PCB footprint creation and library
Building PCB on OSX (by Jon Schneider)
Spicelib, which provides thousands of Gnucap and NGSpice compatible component models
Related projects
- Icarus Verilog, a Verilog simulation and synthesis tool
- GTKWave, a wave viewer
- Fritzing, “essentially an Electronic Design Automation software with a low entry barrier, suited for the needs of designers and artists. It uses the metaphor of the breadboard, so that it is easy to transfer your hardware sketch to the software. From there it is possible to create PCB layouts for turning it into a robust PCB yourself or by help of a manufacturer.”
- KiCad, an EDA software suite similar to gEDA
- Qucs, “an integrated circuit simulator which means you are able to setup a circuit with a graphical user interface (GUI) and simulate the large-signal, small-signal and noise behaviour of the circuit. After that simulation has finished you can view the simulation results on a presentation page or window. ”
- XCircuit, “UNIX/X11 (and Windows, if you have an X-Server running, or Windows API, if not) program for drawing publishable-quality electrical circuit schematic diagrams and related figures, and produce circuit netlists through schematic capture. XCircuit regards circuits as inherently hierarchical, and writes both hierarchical PostScript output and hierarchical SPICE netlists. Circuit components are saved in and retrieved from libraries which are fully editable. XCircuit does not separate artistic expression from circuit drawing; it maintains flexiblity in style without compromising the power of schematic capture.”
Talks and presentations
gEDA session DJ Delorie did at Renesas DevCon 2010 ( the slides for it are here under "Presentations and Other Info")
Ignite 5 video given by Stuart Brorson about "Hardware design and the gEDA Project
Projects created using gEDA
The Open Automaton Project aims to develop an intelligent PC-based mobile robot
Darrell Harmon's Single Board Computer Project
Darrell Harmon's high speed digital signal processing board
MINT : A Jung multiloop type amp circuit
A Linux Car Project (SONE Takeshi)
DJ Delorie's House Furnace project
The Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP)
David Carr's simple software radio peripheral (SSRP)
Werner Hoch's AVR 7-segment clock
Werner Hoch's AVR LCD terminal for the serial port
David Koski's "H-bridge" motor driver power booster
Simple evaluation board and Linux programmer for C8051F320
Jan Wagemakers' 16F84 IR Receiver
Jan Wagemakers' PIC18F452 and 3COM 3C509B Ethernet ISA card
Make a Glowing, Wearable, EL-Wire, Blinky Light Using Open Source Tools
WRAP-Powercontrol -- PC power reset/control circuit
DS1624 parallel port thermometer
SlugTerm - A Terminal for my Slug
Kovacs Levente's How to turn your toaster into an IR reflow oven
Kovacs Levente's Three way, two channel active crossover
BlackfinOne is a new BF532 based board
The Gadgetboard is a free, low cost, user friendly microcontroller experimentation board on steroids
CPLD LED blinker based on XAPP078
Using a Garmin GPS 18 LVC as NTP stratum-0 on Linux 2.6
128 chan derivative of Hill's 320 design w/ PCB and Linux driver
Experimentation board for the AT90USB
Digital Storage Oscilloscope (DSO)
Peter Todd's Open Source Hardware
DJ's Streaming MP3 Alarm Clock
Tiny portable AVR projects: Business card breakout boards
"Peggy," A Light Emitting Pegboard Display
Digital DC Power Supply (in Czech)
GPS Interface and Time Synchronization
The Mars Science Lab (NASA mission) with the Radiation Assessment Detector instrument on board.
Open hardware and software designs for high powered model rocketry
A twilight switch designed using the gEDA suite
Meggy Jr RGB from the Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories
AT90USB162 Mini Development Board
A small Free Software and Free Hardware USB dongle for various purposes
Open source keyboard protocol translator project
32-character serial led display
Termometro Digital com PIC16F818 e LM35
An automated, self-regulated and autonomous (computer-free) system for driving vehicle
IV-18 VFD vacuum Russian Clock
An altimeter is based on an Atmel AVR microcontroller
An altimeter based Texas on a Instruments MSP430F1232 microcontroller
An AVR microcontroller based Ethernet device
Lots of projects created using the gEDA
A signal generator based upon an AD5932 DDS and a AtMega8515 microcontroller
An I2C bus and a Real-Time Clock to the Linksys WRT54GL router
An embedded car computer system, based on ATMega32 MCU
Digilent-Compatible I2S Audio DAC
Monitor power usage in common residential circuit breaker boxes
Arduino compatible shield board overlays text on analog video
Various press that gEDA has received
An article about gEDA (written by Stuart Brorson) was printed in Linux Journal
An article about gEDA (written by a few gEDA developers) was printed in Circuit Cellar
An interview with various people involved with gEDA in EEDesign/EETimes
The above interview got posted to Slashdot
