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Recent research the following open-source software, circuit design assistance (EDA), are summarized as follows
1, gEDA
Official website: geda-project.org
Veteran open-source EDA software, born in the late 1990s, with the schematic drawing, drawing board, gerber files, browsing, circuit simulation (SPICE) and other functions.
The latest stable version: 1.8.2 (released September 2013)
2、KiCad
Official website: kicad-pcb.org
Veteran open-source EDA software, born in the early 1990s, with a schematic drawing, drawing board, Gerber files browsing and other functions, can generate a three-dimensional view of the circuit board. Developer update positive, active user forums .
The latest version: KiCad 5.1.4 (2019 released in August)
3, Fritzing
Official website: fritzing.org
EDA software is open source, it seems that for electronic development Arduino type.
The latest version: 0.9.3b (2016 June 2011)
4、DipTrace
Official website: diptrace.com
Commercial EDA software, which runs on Linux with Wine manner according to the official website. The price of the software is
| Functional limitations | Price of a single copy | Academic institutions price | |
| DipTrace Full | Unlimited number of layers and the number of pins | $995 | $348 |
| DipTrace Extender | Pin number 2000, 6 shelves | $695 | $248 |
| DipTrace Standard | Pin count 1000,4 laminates | $395 | $125 |
| DipTrace Lite | Pin Count 500, double plate | $145 | free |
| DipTrace Starter | Pin Count 200, double plate | $75 |
5、EasyEDA
Official website: easyeda.com
Commercial EDA software, both free version (Free), Professional Edition (Professional, $ 4.9 / month), Enterprise Edition (Enterprise, $ 9.9 / month). This looks like a line of EDA design tools, an important difference between free and paid versions is that the design can be set to "private" when using the paid version, designed for use free version can only be public. The software provides a desktop client for Linux provides only x64 version of the desktop client, of course, you can also enter online design interface directly through the browser.
6、EAGLE
Official website: Eagle @ Autodesk
This is a veteran of EDA software, dating back to the days of DOS, the 2016 Autodesk software was acquired. The software supports Win, Mac and Linux. The price of the software is
| Functional limitations | Single copies price | |
| Free | Layer board, board size ≤ 80cm 2 , 2 Schematic Zhang | free |
| Standard | 4 laminates, board size ≤160cm 2 , Zhang schematics 99 | $ 100 / year |
| Premium | 16 ply, board size limitation, schematic 999 | $ 520 / year |