EDA and IEEE488 Links

Free or GPL'd Software

• gEDA Homepage (Ales Hvezda) the GPL Electronic Design Automation project, early alpha...
• Gnucap Home Page formerly ACS (Al's Circuit Simulator)
• HOMEPAGE of SPICECAD (Martin Maschmann) abandoned?
• Spice OPUS homepage An optimising, interactive spice variant including XSPICE (SPICE OPUS "light" is still free for download)
• SPICE (Kai Borgeest) collection of downloadable circuit simulators
• XCircuit "publication quality" schematic diagrams including schematic capture
• The MUCS-PCB PCB design software an autorouter for 2-16 layer digital PCBs
  (see also APT Design tool projects for more free tools)
• LinuxEDA.com an advocacy site for Electronic Design Automation (EDA) software on Linux
• Open Collector the hardware hacker's dream!
• AppCAD (Agilent) A suite of RF design tools and Application Notes (DOS)
• contrive.it: Download area Gerber utilities (DOS)
• PCB Home Page an interactive printed circuit board editor for X-Windows
• EETimes - Open-Source EDA collection of links
• freshmeat.net: Browse project tree - EDA
  SourceForge.net: Software Map - EDA In welcher Relation zueinander stehen Sourceforge und Freshmeat??
• AADE Filter Design (DOS) does also crystal ladder filters

More SPICE Links

• LTspice a fast, complete, modern, unlimited Spice-compatible simulation tool with a nice GUI for free download from Linear Technology. (Windows.. will also run with some versions of WINE)
• Circuit Analysis Programs based on SPICE (if it does not work try via the ECS page below)
• SPICE - A Brief Overview
• SPICE 3 User's Manual
• The SPICE circuit simulator and models including a huge list of models available on the net
• Welcome to SPICE-CLUB.com ! what happened to it?
• AboutSpice.com
• Intusoft - Free Utilities including an IBIS to SPICE converter
• SPICE models
• Spice models collected by G.Kraus

Useful Demo Versions of Commercial Products

• CadSoft Online: Home of the EAGLE Layout Editor EAGLE Light is freeware, includes a Spice netlister, also for Linux
• Sonnet Software- Sonnet Lite free for download
• Ansoft Corporation - Downloads Free Student Versions of Ansoft Designer, Simplorer and Maxwell
• APLAC Versions free Student version for Linux, Windows, Solaris and HP-UX
• Target 3001 PCB layout, autorouting, PSpice-like simulator (Windows)
• Bartels AutoEngineer schematic entry (free) and layout (demo) also for Linux
• Evaluation Copy of CIRCAD for DOS and Windows. Layout, schematic capture, supports reverse engineering of scanned PCBs. See also Circad Lessons (beware - geocities.com) by Michele Guerra

GPIB, IEEE488, IEC625

• Linux GPIB Package a continuation of the abandoned Linux Lab project (LLP)
• GPIB module modifications linking the LLP GPIB module dynamically
• GPIB Instrument Control for Linux - National Instruments free driver software for NI's PCI-GPIB and AT-GPIB/TNT cards
• Linux GPIB driver for CEC GPIB boards simply points to SourceForge: Linux GPIB Package
• GPIB Module for Perl ..somewhat dated
• The GPIB FAQ Version 1.0 by Vincent Himpe (mirror: GPIB FAQ)
• Ines GPIB hardware
• Capital Equipment GPIB Hardware and software
• Data Acquisition Software for Linux list of various I/O cards
• Rainer Peter Feller : my projects a Tektronix TDS220 readout program
• SampLin Scientific Data Acquisition, Visualization and Process Control software (GPL)
• The GPIB-Tcl Project
• An Open-Source GPIB Utility Library for Win32 by John Miles KE5FX
• GPIB Communicator (Win 98, sorry!) by HaHi "Zenith"
• GPIB references and links for HP8234x and 9914

Misc.

• European Circuit Society - ECS if this does not work, try http://eswww.it.dtu.dk/~el/ecs/ or http://www.es.oersted.dtu.dk/~el/ecs/
  and scroll down to "menu-3" for Circuit Analysis Programs and CAD-sites
• Electronics Software
• The unofficial Numerical Electromagnetic Code (NEC) Archives

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